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DateTimeFormatInfo::GetShortestDayName Method

Obtains the shortest abbreviated day name for a specified day of the week associated with the current DateTimeFormatInfo object.

Namespace:  System.Globalization
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

[ComVisibleAttribute(false)]
public:
String^ GetShortestDayName(
	DayOfWeek dayOfWeek
)

Parameters

dayOfWeek
Type: System::DayOfWeek
One of the DayOfWeek values.

Return Value

Type: System::String
The abbreviated name of the week that corresponds to the dayOfWeek parameter.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

dayOfWeek is not a value in the DayOfWeek enumeration.

The following example demonstrates several methods and properties that specify date and time format patterns, native calendar name, and full and abbreviated month and day names.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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