Formatting Date String abbreviating month

Question

I would like to format a standard .NET DateTime string as follows

2014-01-01 => Jan 2014

I can get the date form "January 2014" by using ToString("y") but how can I abbreviate the month?

Is this even possible?

C# Visual Studio 2012 .NET 4.5

Answer 1

You can use the MMM format as in:

DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd => MMM yyyy")

Which produces:

2014-08-06 => Aug 2014

Answer 2

You can use "MMM", take a look at this example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/zdtaw1bw%28v=vs.110%29.aspx