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I find it intersting that the MS did not have this by default as part of the Standard DateTime Format Strings for .NET.

So I did my own thing..

public static string FormatDateTime(DateTime date)
    {
        return String.Format("{0:dddd}, {1} {0:MMMM} {0:yyyy}", date, AppendDaySuffix(date.Day) );
    }
public static string AppendDaySuffix(int day)
    {
        string daySuffix = "";
        if (day == 1 || day == 21 || day == 31)
            daySuffix = "st";
        else if (day == 2 || day == 22)
            daySuffix = "nd";
        else if (day == 3 || day == 23)
            daySuffix = "rd";
        else
            daySuffix = "th";
        return (day + daySuffix);
    }

You can download a good pdf  reference for .NET DateTime formats from
http://john-sheehan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/msnet-formatting-strings.pdf

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