[2005] Clarity on date Objects

[GrimmReaper]

How can I display a string like :

Wednesday is the 5th day week of week number in 2007

?

Is that even possible?

[GrimmReaper]

OK, figured out how to show the week number.

        Dim sWeekOfYear As Integer = D.DayOfYear
        Dim sWeek As Integer = (sWeekOfYear / 7)
        Label9.Text = "Week " & sWeek.ToString

How can I show today's name, IOW, Wednesday ?

[jmcilhinney]

Date.Today.DayOfWeek.ToString()

Also, note that, by many people's standards, the first week of the year is not simply the first 7 days. The first week of the year might have less than 7 days and it might start after the first of January, going by normal standards. Check out the CalendarWeekRule enumeration for more info.

[GrimmReaper]

Thanx for the info!
I get week number 19, so it seems to be correct.
One last question here, how do I display 'May' instead of 5 ?

[GrimmReaper]

Figured out how to display 'May' :

Microsoft.VisualBasic.DateAndTime.MonthName(number)

Isn't there an easier way?

[robbedaya]

I gess:

Date.Today.Month.ToString()

but i wasn't able to test/try it.

[GrimmReaper]

Thanx, but that still shows 5

[jmcilhinney]

If you want to format a date you use it's ToString method. "d" is for day, "M" is for month and "y" is for year. Where day and month is concerned you can specify 1, 2, 3 or 4 characters. 1 character is single digit, 2 characters is double digit (leading zero), 3 characters is abbreviated name and 4 characters is full name, e.g.

MessageBox.Show(Date.Today.ToString("dddd, d MMMM yyyy"))

displays "Saturday, 12 May 2007".

All this is in the MSDN library and if you'd searched for date format you'd have found it yourself.