adding "months" to a combobox [RESOLVED]

[Andy]

I've been trying to do a loop to add the names of each month in a combo box. I haven't been successful. The best I've been able to do is get the numeric representation of this month 12 times

I figured there would've been an enumerator ofr the months but apparently not.

Any ideas how to loop through the months and display them. preferably starting with THIS month and ending with LAST month.

eg.

March
.
.
.
.
.
February

so NEXT month, it looks like this:

April
.
.
.
March

as always, thanks.

[Pirate]

One way .

Dim months As New DateTimeFormatInfo
        For i As Integer = 1 To 12
            MsgBox(months.GetMonthName(i))
        Next

[Pirate]

Two ways now :

For Each s As String In months.MonthNames
            MsgBox(s)
Next

[Andy]

aha! I missed the DateTimeFormatInfo().

that makes all the difference in the world!!

thanks pirate



added:

you must import this namespace to the project:

System.Globalization

[axion_sa]

Wouldn't it be better if you preselect the current month? This way almost seems like you're wrapping into the new year...

Taking into account the current culture:

		private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			// Get the current month.
			int month = DateTime.Now.Month;

			// Get a string array of the current culture's month names.
			System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo formatInfo =
				System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat;
			string[] monthNames = formatInfo.MonthNames;

			// Populate the combo.
			for (int i = month; i < monthNames.Length; i++)
				if (monthNames[i] != String.Empty)
					DropDownList1.Items.Add(monthNames[i]);
			for (int i = 0; i < month; i++)
				if (monthNames[i] != String.Empty)
					DropDownList1.Items.Add(monthNames[i]);
		}