Finding the date of monday in a week with VB.NET

Question

I need to find a way to find the date (DD/MM/YYYY) of the Monday for any week we\'re on.

For example, for this week, monday would be 09/11/2009, and if this were nex

Answer 1

Following on from my comments to Meta-Knight's answer, here is a short function that makes the correction I mention in the comments:

Public Function GetFirstOfLastWeek() As DateTime
Dim today As DateTime, daysSinceMonday As Integer
    today = DateTime.Today
    daysSinceMonday = today.DayOfWeek - DayOfWeek.Monday
    If daysSinceMonday < 0 Then
        daysSinceMonday += 7
    End If
    Return today.AddDays(-daysSinceMonday)  
End Function