Arabic Calendar Date to English Calendar Date in Windows Form C#

This article explains how to change Arabic Calendar Date to English Calendar Date in Windows Form C#.

Here you see how to change Arabic Calendar Date to English Calendar Date in Windows Form C#.

Step 1: Go to the VS 2010 Menu and select "File" -> "New" -> "Project.." then select Visual C# -> Window Forms Application and create the Windows Forms application.


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Step 2: Then we will select the make Form Fig 2 using Textbox, Label, Button figure 2

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Step 3: Then go to the Form 1 file and write this code to convert to Arabic date to English date.Double click BUTTON write this code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;
using System.Globalization;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
   public partial class Form1 : Form
   {
      public Form1()
      {
          InitializeComponent();
      }
      private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
         CultureInfo arCI = new CultureInfo("ar-SA");
         string hijri = textBox1.Text + " 00:00:00";
         //txtenglishDate.Text = tempDate.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");DateTime tempDate = DateTime.ParseExact(hijri, "         dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss", arCI.DateTimeFormat, DateTimeStyles.AllowInnerWhite);
         string ar = tempDate.ToString(new CultureInfo("ar-SA"));
         GregorianCalendar enCalendar = new GregorianCalendar();
         int year = enCalendar.GetYear(tempDate);
         int month = enCalendar.GetMonth(tempDate);
         int day = enCalendar.GetDayOfMonth(tempDate);
         textBox2.Text = (string.Format("{0}/{1}/{2}", day, month, year));
      }
   }
}

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Step 4: Then we will Enter the valid arabic date (hijiri date) in the format of "DD/MM/YYYY" if u want change the format u can include format also.


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Output


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Summary

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