Calculate the number of business days between two dates?

Question

In C#, how can I calculate the number of business (or weekdays) days between two dates?

Answer 1

Here is the function which we can use to calculate business days between two date. I'm not using holiday list as it can vary accross country/region.

If we want to use it anyway we can take third argument as list of holiday and before incrementing count we should check that list does not contains d

public static int GetBussinessDaysBetweenTwoDates(DateTime StartDate,   DateTime EndDate)
    {
        if (StartDate > EndDate)
            return -1;

        int bd = 0;

        for (DateTime d = StartDate; d < EndDate; d = d.AddDays(1))
        {
            if (d.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Saturday && d.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Sunday)
                bd++;
        }

        return bd;
    }