System.Globalization Namespace   DateTimeFormatInfo Class

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Returns the culture-specific full name of the specified day of the week based on the CultureInfo of the current thread.

[ VB ]
public Function GetDayName ( _
   ByVal dayofweek As DayOfWeek _
) As String

[ C# ]
public string GetDayName ( 
   DayOfWeek dayofweek
);

[ C++ ]
public: String* GetDayName ( 
   DayOfWeek dayofweek
);

[ JScript ]
function GetDayName ( 
   dayofweek : DayOfWeek
) : String;

dayofweek

A System.DayOfWeek value.

The culture-specific full name of the day of the week represented by dayofweek.

Exception Type	Condition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	dayofweek is not a valid System.DayOfWeek value.

For the default invariant DateTimeFormatInfo, this method returns a string from the GregorianCalendar:

dayofweek	Return Value
Sunday	"Sunday"
Monday	"Monday"
Tuesday	"Tuesday"
Wednesday	"Wednesday"
Thursday	"Thursday"
Friday	"Friday"
Saturday	"Saturday"

The below shows how GetDayName can be used to render the name of a given day for each of the available cultures.

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DateTimeFormatInfo Members   CultureInfo   GregorianCalendar   DayNames   System.DayOfWeek

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