Date Calculations

Hi I would like to display the past 12 months, excluding current month based on today's date in a dropdownlist.
e.g. today: 31/03/2011

I want to display in the list
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
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March 2010

Any suggestions how this can be done.

Thanks

Something like the following might get you off to a good start ...

Code:

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        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){
            string tmp, month, year;
            DateTime current = DateTime.Now;
            for (int i = 12; i > 0; i--) {
                current = current.AddMonths(-1);
                tmp = current.ToLongDateString();
                month = (tmp.Split(' '))[1].Trim();
                year = tmp.Substring(tmp.LastIndexOf(',')+1).Trim();
                listView1.Items.Add(month + ", " + year);
            }
      }

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As you can see, I am placing the result in a listView. You'll probably want to do something else but the loop above will at least generate the strings for you. Then you can do with them as you will.

Give it a try ... might work.

OldFool

Here's one way:

Code:

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List<string> myDates = new List<string>(12);
           
for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
    myDates.Add((DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-i)).ToString("MMMM yyyy"));

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Then bind the ItemSource of the DropDownList to myDates. I would set a variable equal to DateTime.Now, before the loop and then use that variable. Just in case somebody runs your code at 1 nanosecond before midnight on the last day of the month!

- myDates Count = 12
[0] "April 2011"
[1] "March 2011"
[2] "February 2011"
[3] "January 2011"
[4] "December 2010"
[5] "November 2010"
[6] "October 2010"
[7] "September 2010"
[8] "August 2010"
[9] "July 2010"
[10] "June 2010"
[11] "May 2010"

VERY nice, rliq !