Question

Looking for linq query to fill a list with month + year for example (January 2012)

starting form current month

   var currentdate = System.DateTime.Now

If Dec 2011 is the current month
then list should be like this

December 2011
January 2012
……
November 2012

Answer 1

I’m editing to turn my sample code into a method that I might almost use in production because it’s more testable and culture-aware:

public IEnumerable GetMonths(DateTime currentDate, IFormatProvider provider)
{
    return from i in Enumerable.Range(0, 12)
           let now = currentDate.AddMonths(i)
           select new
           {
               MonthLabel = now.ToString("MMMM", provider),
               Month = now.Month,
               Year = now.Year
           };
}

This outputs (on a French computer):