Contents tagged with globalization

• Date Handling Tip: Get the Month Name

  Wednesday, September 16, 2009

  .NET globalization

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  There are a lot of great date handling methods attached to the DateTime class in .NET. However, if you wish to get information such as the current month name, you will not find it in this class. The reason is because .NET needs to take into account local culture and languages. Thus, methods that return something that is specific to a language or a culture are placed under the System.Globalization namespace. As an example, below is the code you would need to write to return the month name as a string in any language.

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