I am just wondering if there is a simple way or framework to to get all weekends within date range in C#?
Is it possible to do with LINQ as well?
Any clue?
Thank you!
I am just wondering if there is a simple way or framework to to get all weekends within date range in C#?
Is it possible to do with LINQ as well?
Any clue?
Thank you!
If you make a way to enumerate all days, you can use linq to filter to weekends:
IEnumerable<DateTime> GetDaysBetween(DateTime start, DateTime end)
{
for (DateTime i = start; i < end; i = i.AddDays(1))
{
yield return i;
}
}
var weekends = GetDaysBetween(DateTime.Today, DateTime.Today.AddDays(365))
.Where(d => d.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday || d.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday);
I found how to do it.
http://www.dotnetjalps.com/2011/06/finding-saturdaysunday-between-date.html
namespace DatimeApplication
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
DateTime startDate=new DateTime(2011,3,1);
DateTime endDate = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan diff = endDate - startDate;
int days = diff.Days;
for (var i = 0; i <= days; i++)
{
var testDate = startDate.AddDays(i);
switch (testDate.DayOfWeek)
{
case DayOfWeek.Saturday:
case DayOfWeek.Sunday:
Console.WriteLine(testDate.ToShortDateString());
break;
}
}
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
That's not really difficult to code... Here's an efficient iterator:
public static IEnumerable<DateTime> GetWeekends(DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate)
{
startDate = startDate.Date;
endDate = endDate.Date;
if (endDate < startDate)
yield break;
var currentDate = startDate;
// Advance to next Saturday
switch (currentDate.DayOfWeek)
{
case DayOfWeek.Saturday:
break;
case DayOfWeek.Sunday:
yield return currentDate;
currentDate = currentDate.AddDays(6);
break;
default:
currentDate = currentDate.AddDays(DayOfWeek.Saturday - currentDate.DayOfWeek);
break;
}
while (currentDate <= endDate)
{
yield return currentDate;
currentDate = currentDate.AddDays(1);
if (currentDate <= endDate)
yield return currentDate;
currentDate = currentDate.AddDays(6);
}
}