Need 1 year before

Question

In my dropdown value i get the current year ddlYear.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.Year.ToString()).Selected = true; but i want the dropdown shows 1 year back...that is now dropdown shows 2018.but i want to show it as 2017 how it possible?

Nitin Sontakke · Answer

For such minor things, first, just go through all methods/properties available to class/structure using intellisense. If you read it once, you will immediately get your answer there itself. ddlYear.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1).Year.ToString()).Selected = true; Of course, I am assuming that the value is there already in the dropdown list. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.addyears(v=vs.110).aspx

Ravi Polara Patidar · Answer

Hello, Soumya It's Possible. You use this code like: ddlYear.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1).ToString()).Selected = true

Soumya Ps · Answer

Its Working...................Great Thnaks to All!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nitin Sontakke · Answer

Please formally close the question. It is a good practise. You DO NOT have to accept my answer but please accept one close the thread.

Satish Kumar Vadlavalli · Answer

you can use AddYears method and the code is something like ddlYear.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1).ToString()).Selected = true ;

Soumya Ps · Answer

I have three dropdown consist of year,month and date when i changed the code to ddlYear.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1).ToString()).Selected = true; three dropdown doesnt show any value ..and i change the three dropdown as ddlYear.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1).ToString()).Selected = true; ddlMonth.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-1).ToString()).Selected = true; ddlMonth.Items.FindByValue(System.DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1).ToString()).Selected = true; This also not working ..my dropdown shows nothing