Question

I did a quick search for this and was surprised not to find it anywhere.

Basically looking to convert full month names (January, September, etc) to the equivalent number that would be used in mm/dd/yyyy format.

I can put together my own array and pull it out accordingly, but there has to be a quick and straightforward method already. Right?

Answer 1

You can use the format string MMMM for the full name of the month.

See custom DateTime format strings on MSDN.

Dim fullMonthName as DateTime
fullMonthName = DateTime.ParseExact("26 January 2010", "dd MMMM yyyy", 
                                           CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)