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How to Capitalize names using C#

How can i retrieve values from database tables in First letter capital format?

My LINQ Query is like this,

            DBEntities Context = new DBEntities ();    
            var UserNameEntity = (from a in Context.UserInformation
                                  where a.UserId == UserId
                                  select a).First();
            string UserName = UserNameEntity.FirstName + " " + UserNameEntity.LastName;   

            return UserName;

I am getting user name : bhargav soni

but i want this should be like Bhargav Soni

How can i do that?

Answer 1

On your FirstName and LastName properties, use the indexer to retrieve the first character, and call the Substring() method to retrieve the rest of the string.

DBEntities Context = new DBEntities ();  
var UserNameEntity = (from a in Context.UserInformation
                     where a.UserId == UserId
                     select a).First();
string UserName = char.ToUpper(UserNameEntity.FirstName[0])
                  + UserNameEntity.FirstName.Substring(1)
                  + " "
                  + char.ToUpper(UserNameEntity.LastName[0])
                  + UserNameEntity.LastName.Substring(1);

return UserName;

This assumes that both properties are at least two characters in length.

You can also do this entirely in LINQ:

DBEntities Context = new DBEntities ();  
IEnumerable<string> userNames = from a in Context.UserInformation
                                where a.UserId == UserId
                                let firstName = a.FirstName
                                let lastName = a.LastName
                                select (char.ToUpper(firstName[0])
                                    + firstName.Substring(1)
                                    + " "
                                    + char.ToUpper(lastName[0])
                                    + lastName.Substring(1));

return displayNames.First();

Obviously, using String.Format instead of concatenation may or may not improve readability.