Question

I have a date and I need to populate a drop-down with the months/years between that date and today. For instance, if that date is 10/14/2010 then the drop-down should contain October 2010, November 2010, December 2010, January 2011.

The way I’m thinking of doing this is to pass that date to a function, loop from today backwards step 1 month while adding each month to a collection until we reach that date and finally return a collection of strings. Then, populate the drop-down control on page load. Finally, use some ajax with a page method to parse back the string and trigger a partial page reload.

I’m just wondering if there’s an easy way to do it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

public static List<string> GetMonths(DateTime StartDate)
  {
   List<string> MonthList = new List<string>();
   DateTime ThisMonth = DateTime.Now.Date;

   while (ThisMonth.Date > StartDate.Date)
   {
    MonthList.Add(ThisMonth.ToString("MMMM") + " " + ThisMonth.Year.ToString());
    ThisMonth = ThisMonth.AddMonths(-1);
   }

   return MonthList;
  }