How to display year in a dropdown control in desc order 2

[taree]

can someone help me here why the dropdown control is not populated with the year starting from 2009....2000 in a descending order. I can get it to work in ascending order.my problem is when I do it in descending order for asc. i do it this way . thank you

For intYear = DateTime.Now.Year To DateTime.Now.Year + 9

    Dim intYear As Integer
                   ddlLettYear.Items.Add(intYear)
        Next
        ddlLettYear.Items.Insert(0, New System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem("--Year--", 0))
        ddlLettYear.Items.FindByValue(0).Selected = True
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[jbenson001]

Change

 For intYear = DateTime.Now.Year To DateTime.Now.Year + 9

TO

 For intYear = DateTime.Now.Year + 9 To DateTime.Now.Year Step -1

   ... Do Stuff

Next

 

[jmeckley]

this should do it.

public IEnumerable<int> years_since(int year)
{
   var this_year = DateTime.Today.Year;
   while(this_year >= year)
   {
       yield return this_year--;
   }
}

ddlLettYear.DataSource = years_since(2000);
ddlLettYear.DataBind();
ddlLettYear.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("--Year--", 0));

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[taree]

Thank you both for your valuable tip. It works like a charm I followed jbenson001 way.

For intYear As Integer = DateTime.Now.Year To 1990 Step -1
drpIssueYear.Items.Add(intYear)
Next

drpIssueYear.Items.Insert(0, New System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem("--Year--", 0))
drpIssueYear.Items.FindByValue(0).Selected = True