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Automatic Binding of Days, Months, Years to a DropDownList Control

Posted by Suthish Nair Articles | Visual C# September 22, 2010
This blog shows a simple snippet of binding days, months and years to a DropDownList.
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This blog shows a simple snippet of automatic binding of Days, Months, Years to a DropDownList/ListBox control.

Below following methods were used for the purpose.

For binding Days:
  1. System.DateTime.DaysInMonth(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month).
  • Method returns Total Days in a Month.

  • Method returns the last day of the month.
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For binding DayNames
  1. Doing a for-each loop to retrieve Day Names from DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.DayNames.
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For binding MonthNames
  1. Doing a for-each to retrieve Month Names from DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames.
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Some styling is also applied; you can uncomment those code and test the samples attached.

The output will shown as below.

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Thanks for sharing ..

Posted by srikanth kumar Dec 01, 2011

Thanx Madhu, you can post your threads to forum section..

Posted by Suthish Nair Aug 04, 2011

1.I want examples on dependency Proparties? can any body help me.

Posted by Madhu B Aug 04, 2011

Its Very Nice

Posted by Madhu B Aug 04, 2011

thanks a lot:)

Posted by surender bhyan Jun 03, 2011
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