How to list all month names, e.g. for a combo?

Question

At the moment I\'m creating a DateTime for each month and formatting it to only include the month.
Is there another or any better way to do this?

Answer 1

A way to retrieve a dynamic culture specific list of month names in C# with LINQ.

ComboBoxName.ItemsSource= 
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.
CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames.
TakeWhile(m => m != String.Empty).ToList();

OR

In this example an anonymous object is created with a Month and MonthName property

var months = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames
 .TakeWhile(m => m != String.Empty)
 .Select((m,i) => new  
 {  
     Month = i+1,  
     MonthName = m
 }) 
 .ToList();

PS: We use the method TakeWhile because the MonthNames array contains a empty 13th month.