How to get first and last fridays in a month?

[Sasidhar Parvatham]

Hello All,

Is there a way I can get dates for first and last fridays of a month? Any
suggestion would be helpful.

Thanks.

[Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]]

There's no direct way that I'm aware of, but you could write a simple piece
of code like this:

DateTime dtFirstFriday = DateTime.MinValue;
DateTime dtLastFriday = DateTime.MaxValue;

DateTime dtFront = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month, 1);
DateTime dtBack = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month,
DateTime.DaysInMonth(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month));

while (dtFirstFriday == DateTime.MinValue || dtLastFriday ==
DateTime.MaxValue)
{
if (dtFirstFriday == DateTime.MinValue && dtFront.DayOfWeek ==
DayOfWeek.Friday)
dtFirstFriday = dtFront;
else
dtFront = dtFront.AddDays(1.0);

if (dtLastFriday == DateTime.MaxValue && dtBack.DayOfWeek ==
DayOfWeek.Friday)
dtLastFriday = dtBack;
else
dtBack= dtBack.AddDays(-1.0);
}

At the end of the loop dtFirstFriday and dtLastFriday will hold the
appropriate values.

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"Sasidhar Parvatham" <sa****************@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello All,

Is there a way I can get dates for first and last fridays of a month? Any
suggestion would be helpful.

Thanks.

[Ron]

Try this:

private void FirstAndLastFridays(int month, int year, out int first, out int
last)
{
//get last friday
int lastFriday = DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month);
DateTime day = new DateTime(year, month, lastFriday);
do
{
day = new DateTime(year, month, lastFriday);
if (day.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday)
lastFriday--;
}
while (day.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday);
//get first friday
int firstFriday = 1;
do
{
day = new DateTime(year, month, firstFriday);
if (day.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday)
firstFriday++;
}
while (day.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday);
first = firstFriday;
last = lastFriday;
}

"Sasidhar Parvatham" wrote:

Hello All,

Is there a way I can get dates for first and last fridays of a month? Any
suggestion would be helpful.

Thanks.