Help needed on ASP.NET MVC data processing

Question

I'm developing a web project with service and repository layers in ASP.NET MVC 2. I'm using Entity Framework.

I have two generated EF classes. Namely, Company and User. Company has two fields CompanyID {int} and CompanyName {string}. User has three fields UserID{int}, UserName{string}, BirthMonth{smallint,can be null} and CompanyID{int, this is a foreign key of Company}

I have a view for displaying UserName, Month and CompanyName. And also, this same view should include another model, namely Messages (MessageTitle, RecievedDate, ReceivedFrom) I would like to view BirthMonths as month names (January, February, etc.)

I'm stuck at converting short? to short and displaying months as names (ie. January, February) other than numbers.

Answer 1

Give this a try(I didn't test it, but found similiar in a few web searches).

string month = String.Empty;
if(BirthMonth.HasValue)
{
  DateTime date = new DateTime(1,(int)BirthMonth.Value,1);
  month = date.ToString("MMMM");
}
else
{
  // month = some default value here;
}

Edit to add: To convert short? to short specifically:

short myShort = BirthMonth.HasValue ? BirthMonth.Value : 0;

Answer 2

Hey,

short? to short can be done using GetValueOrDefault(); to get the non-nullable form, and to get the month name, write a quick converter to convert the number to month name... There may be something within DateTime.ToString to give this to you too.