Adding Days to a Date but Excluding Weekends

Question

Given a date how can I add a number of days to it, but exclude weekends. For example, given 11/12/2008 (Wednesday) and adding five will result in 11/19/2008 (Wednesday) rath

Answer 1

Without over-complicating the algorithm, you could just create an extension method like this:

public static DateTime AddWorkingDays(this DateTime date, int daysToAdd)
{
    while (daysToAdd > 0)
    {
        date = date.AddDays(1);

        if (date.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Saturday && date.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Sunday)
        {
            daysToAdd -= 1;
        }
    }

    return date;
}