Question

I am trying to create a archive list for a blog application. I have a veiw model which has this code snippet:

@model IEnumerable<NPLHBlog.Models.ArchiveListModels>
...
        @foreach (var item in Model)
        {
            <li>@item.ArchiveMonth/@item.ArchiveYear : @item.PostCount</li>
        }
...

I am trying to print the item.ArchiveMonth as ‘Jan’ instead of ‘1’.

the ArchiveListModel is as follows:

public class ArchiveListModels
{
    public int ArchiveYear { get; set; }
    public int ArchiveMonth { get; set; }
    public int PostCount { get; set; }
}

and blogs are read from repository as follows:

    public IQueryable<ArchiveListModels> ArchiveList()
    {
        var archiveList = from blogs in db.Blogs
                          group blogs by new { blogs.PublishDate.Year, blogs.PublishDate.Month }
                              into dateGroup
                              select new ArchiveListModels()
                              {
                                  ArchiveYear = dateGroup.Key.Year,
                                  ArchiveMonth = dateGroup.Key.Month,
                                  PostCount = dateGroup.Count()
                              };
        return archiveList;
    }

Many thanks.

Answer 1

To get the full month name

int month = 1;
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(month);

Or you can use the datetime string format:

int month = 1;
var dt = new DateTime(2012, month, 1):
var monthAbbr = dt.ToString("MMM");

Or you can do a lookup against the abbreviations list

int month = 1;
var monthAbbr =     System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.AbbreviatedMonthNames[month];