System.Globalization Namespace   DateTimeFormatInfo Class

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

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

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

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

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

dayofweek

A System.DayOfWeek value.

The culture-specific abbreviated 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	"Sun"
Monday	"Mon"
Tuesday	"Tue"
Wednesday	"Wed"
Thursday	"Thu"
Friday	"Fri"
Saturday	"Sat"

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

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DateTimeFormatInfo Members   CultureInfo   GregorianCalendar   AbbreviatedDayNames   System.DayOfWeek

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