How to find month and year

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Hi,

I want to display last 5 years(Month-Year) in dropdown.

The format in the dropdown should display "Month-Year" (I want last 5 years values).

Posted 2-Jan-12 20:09pm

gani7787

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Solution 3

Instead of storing directly the month and the year, I'd prefer creating DateTime objects for each month. When the dropdown is filled the datetime could be formatted as needed but also the actual datetime object could be stored for later use and to avoid interpretation of the text in the dropdown. For example consider this:

C#

System.DateTime dtNow = new DateTime(System.DateTime.Now.Year, System.DateTime.Now.Month, 1);
while (dtNow >= System.DateTime.Now.AddYears(-5)) {
   dtNow.ToString("MMMM-yyyy"); // this would go to the dropdown as DataTextField
   dtNow; //This would go to the dropdown as a DataValueField
   dtNow = dtNow.AddMonths(-1);
}

Posted 3-Jan-12 10:28am

Wendelius

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Rajesh Anuhya · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-02T20:22:00

Solution 1

Use the below Code

C#

for (int innlop = 1; innlop <= 5; innlop++)
               DropDownList1.Items.Add(DateTime.Now.AddYears(innlop * -1).Year.ToString());

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Posted 2-Jan-12 20:22pm

Rajesh Anuhya

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Un_NaMeD 3-Jan-12 2:27am

Nice. My 5!

Rajesh Anuhya 3-Jan-12 2:46am

Thanks

Supriya Srivastav · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-02T20:29:00

Solution 2

Try this,

C#

int yr = 2012;
        string[] monthNames = { "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" };
        for (int cnt = yr - 5; cnt < yr; cnt++)
        {
            for (int mth = 0; mth <= 11; mth++)
            {
                ddl_Years.Items.Add(monthNames[mth] + "-" + cnt.ToString());
            }
        }
        ddl_Years.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("--Please Select--", "0"));

Posted 2-Jan-12 20:29pm

Supriya Srivastav

Updated 2-Jan-12 20:33pm

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Supriya Srivastav 3-Jan-12 5:16am

what do you mean here by "current month-year"
do you want to restrict values not more than current month and year?
Explain?

Supriya Srivastav 3-Jan-12 7:42am

use it,
string cur_Date = DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM") + "-" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy");
string[] monthNames = { "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" };
for (int cnt = 2006; cnt <= 2020; cnt++)
{
for (int mth = 0; mth <= 11; mth++)
{
string item = monthNames[mth] + "-" + cnt.ToString();
ddl_Years.Items.Add(new ListItem(item, item));
}
}
ddl_Years.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("--Please Select--", "0"));
ddl_Years.SelectedValue = cur_Date;