How to format a DateTime variable to get the Month, and then put the value into a string in C#? [VS2005]

Question

DateTime dt = Convert.ToDateTime(dateTimePicker1.Text); //taken the DateTime from form
string dt1 = String.Format("Y", dt); //trying to make so that it comes to "August 2009"

Tried but all I get is dt1="Y".

Answer 1

DateTime dt = Convert.ToDateTime(dateTimePicker1.Text); //taken the DateTime from form
string dt1 = dt.ToString("MMMM yyyy")

Answer 2

Try dt.ToString("Y")

Answer 3

Try:

string dt1 = dt.ToString("MMMM yyyy");

Answer 4

DateTime dt = Convert.ToDateTime(dateTimePicker1.Text); //taken the DateTime from form
string dt1 = String.Format("{0:MMMM yyyy}", dt); //trying to make so that it comes to "August 2009"

Answer 5

You have other answers that use ToString .. if you want to use string.Format, try this:

string dt1 = string.Format("{0:Y}", dt);

Answer 6

The other answers will work. I just wanted to comment on the reason why your code doesn't work. String.Format is designed to format more than 1 variable at the same time. You could use it, but the syntax would be:

string str = String.Format("{0:Y}", dt);

hope that helps. The format specifier you're looking for is probably "MMMM yyyy", the default format for "Y" is year-month, not month-year.