DateTime Convert from int to Month Name in C#, Silverlight

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AmbiguousX picture AmbiguousX · Aug 3, 2010 · Viewed 26.9k times · Source

I am trying to print out the name of the month not the integer value of each month. (for example if the date is 2/2/2002, I would like the "month" to read out "February" instead of "2."

I am pulling in the system.DateTime.now to get the current month. When I try to print out the current month on the form, it just puts the correlating integer value for the month, whereas I would like to have the Month Name.

I know this can be done using switch-case or if statements to individually convert the numbers into word values, but I was just wondering if there was a simple, built-in conversion command that will automatically tell the application to print out the month's name instead of it's correlating integer value.

I am programming in the Visual Studio 2010 environment using C#-4.0, Silverlight-4.0.

Answer

Justin picture Justin · Aug 3, 2010

Try DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM")

See MSDN: Custom Date and Time Format Strings for other format strings.

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