Month names. i18n, you know

Whenever you see something like this you should come to an idea something is wrong (for instance, the guy who wrote this is still alive):

'month names in Latvian
Dim sMonth() As String = _
            {"Janvāris", "Februāris", "Marts", "Aprīlis", _
            "Maijs", "Jūnijs", "Jūlijs", "Augusts", _
            "Septembris", "Oktobris", "Novembris", "Decembris"}

Dim oListItem as ListItem
For iMonth as Integer = 1 To 12
  oListItem = New ListItem(sMonth(iMonth-1),  iMonth.ToString())
  Me.lstYears.Items.Add(oListItem)
Next

Explanation – if MS Windows knows quite well how months are named in Latvia, why should you try to be smarter than the big brother? Another explanation – if this is a web project (and in my case it is), you should think of internationalization whenever possible.

So a more correct way to add month names to a dropdown menu is:

Imports System.Globalization
....
Dim oListItem as ListItem
For iMonth As Integer = 0 To 11
   oEntry = New Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem( _
         CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.DateTimeFormat.MonthNames(iMonth), _
            iMonth.ToString)
   Me.lstMonths.Items.Add(oEntry)
Next

And, to be even more precise, you could first check how many months there are in the current culture:

For iMonth As Integer = 0 To _
                CultureInfo. CurrentUICulture.Calendar. _ 
                GetMonthsInYear(Now.Year) - 1
    ....

/Just trying to be a good boy and use the facilities provided by the framework/