How to get last Friday of month(s) using .NET

Question

I have a function that returns me only the fridays from a range of dates

public static List GetDates(DateTime startDate, int weeks)
{
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Answer 1

Here's an extension method we are using.

public static class DateTimeExtensions
{
    public static DateTime GetLastFridayInMonth(this DateTime date)
    {
        var firstDayOfNextMonth = new DateTime(date.Year, date.Month, 1).AddMonths(1);
        int vector = (((int)firstDayOfNextMonth.DayOfWeek + 1) % 7) + 1;
        return firstDayOfNextMonth.AddDays(-vector);
    }
}

Below is the MbUnit test case

[TestFixture]
public class DateTimeExtensionTests
{
  [Test]
  [Row(1, 2011, "2011-01-28")]
  [Row(2, 2011, "2011-02-25")]
  ...
  [Row(11, 2011, "2011-11-25")]
  [Row(12, 2011, "2011-12-30")]
  [Row(1, 2012, "2012-01-27")]
  [Row(2, 2012, "2012-02-24")]
  ...
  [Row(11, 2012, "2012-11-30")]
  [Row(12, 2012, "2012-12-28")]

  public void Test_GetLastFridayInMonth(int month, int year, string expectedDate)
  {
    var date = new DateTime(year, month, 1);
    var expectedValue = DateTime.Parse(expectedDate);

    while (date.Month == month)
    {
      var result = date.GetLastFridayInMonth();
      Assert.AreEqual(expectedValue, result);
      date = date.AddDays(1);
    }
  }
}