How to get name month in calculated field xtrareport

Question

I'm building a report using xtraReport but I have a problem. I want to get the name of the month using calculated field I did this but I can't get it.

FormatString('{0:MMMM}',GetMonth([MYDATE]))

The result is MMMM, I'll really apreciate your help, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think this is how you want to accomplish your task:

Just click on the glyph for your report control, assign the property to the Expression field and make the format string {0:MMM}.

To give you some confidence that this works, here is when I ran it with today's date:

If you are a purist, here is the code behind:

this.xrLabel2.TextFormatString = "{0:MMM}";