Genitive case information has long been a part of Windows itself; you can read the genitive forms directly using the Win32 API GetCalendarInfo with the appropriate manifest (Figure 5). However, in .NET 1.1, the information is not available although present in the system. You could find the information using the much-missed WinCV.exe, which is no longer supplied in .NET 2.0 as such, but is accessible as properties of DateTimeFormatInfo. You can ... read the abbreviated forms (see Figure 2).