How to list all month names, e.g. for a combo?

Question

At the moment I\'m creating a DateTime for each month and formatting it to only include the month.
Is there another or any better way to do this?

Answer 1

public IEnumerable<SelectListItem> Months
{
  get
  {
    return Enumerable.Range(1, 12).Select(x => new SelectListItem
    {
      Value = x.ToString(),
      Text = DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.GetMonthName(x)
    });
  }
}

Answer 2

Try enumerating the month names:

for( int i = 1; i <= 12; i++ ){
  combo.Items.Add(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames[i]);
}

It's in the System.Globalization namespace.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

string[] monthNames = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames;

foreach (string m in monthNames) // writing out
{
    Console.WriteLine(m);
}

Output:

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Update: Do note that for different locales/cultures, the output might not be in English. Haven't tested that before though.

For US English only:

string[] monthNames = (new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US")).DateTimeFormat.MonthNames;

Answer 4

You can get a list of localized months from Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames and invariant months from DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo.MonthNames.

string[] localizedMonths = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames;
string[] invariantMonths = DateTimeFormatInfo.InvariantInfo.MonthNames;

for( int month = 0; month < 12; month++ )
{
    ListItem monthListItem = new ListItem( localizedMonths[month], invariantMonths[month] );
    monthsDropDown.Items.Add( monthListItem );
}

There might be some issue with the number of months in a year depending on the calendar type, but I've just assumed 12 months in this example.