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

I created an extension that allows you to add or subtract business days. Use a negative number of businessDays to subtract. It seems to work in all cases.

namespace Extensions.DateTime
{
    public static class BusinessDays
    {
        public static System.DateTime AddBusinessDays(this System.DateTime source, int businessDays)
        {
            var dayOfWeek = businessDays < 0
                                ? ((int)source.DayOfWeek - 12) % 7
                                : ((int)source.DayOfWeek + 6) % 7;

            switch (dayOfWeek)
            {
                case 6:
                    businessDays--;
                    break;
                case -6:
                    businessDays++;
                    break;
            }

            return source.AddDays(businessDays + ((businessDays + dayOfWeek) / 5) * 2);
        }
    }
}

Example:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Extensions.DateTime;

namespace AddBusinessDaysTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            label1.Text = DateTime.Now.AddBusinessDays(5).ToString();
            label2.Text = DateTime.Now.AddBusinessDays(-36).ToString();
        }
    }
}