What is the best way to code up a Month and Year drop down list for ASP.NET?
Extending @Jesse Brown's answer...
With a using System.Globalization directive, I have the following code:
for (int x = 0; x < 12; x++)
{
cboMonth.Items.Add
(
(x+1).ToString("00")
+ " "
+ CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames.GetValue(x)
);
}
This produces a dropdown list that looks like:
01 January 02 February 03 March ... 12 December
A further refinement might be to make the displayed month the current month by adding:
cboMonth.Text = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString("00")
+ " "
+ CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames.GetValue(DateTime.Now.Month);
After the for loop.
Below code is for load month dropdown as Select
private void LoadMonth()
{
ddlmonth.Items.Add(new ListItem("Select", 0.ToString()));
var months = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames;
for (int i = 0; i < months.Length-1; i++)
{
ddlmonth.Items.Add(new ListItem(months[i], (i+1).ToString()));
}
}
Here is my solution, which is very similar to @jesse-brown's solution (the accepted answer)
VB.NET:
In a global functions class:
Public Shared Function GetMonthList() As Generic.Dictionary(Of String, String)
Dim months As New Generic.Dictionary(Of String, String)()
For m As Int32 = 1 To 12
months.Add(String.Format("{0:0#}", m), CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(m))
Next
Return months
End Function
On the ASPX page:
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
ddMonth.DataSource = GlobalFunctions.GetMonthList()
ddMonth.DataValueField = "Key"
ddMonth.DataTextField = "Value"
ddMonth.DataBind()
End Sub
This implementation is in VB.NET because that happens to be what this webapp is using (legacy), however thank you very much for the examples in C# (my preferred language), I'm posting the VB.NET here to help the VB.NET community as well.
You could use this to get a list of all the Month names and loop through it.
CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames
You can use it like this...using the index of the Month as the value for your dropdown
var months = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames;
for (int i = 0; i < months.Length; i++)
{
ddl.Items.Add(new ListItem(months[i], i.ToString()));
}