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

I just improved @Alexander and @Slauma answer to support a business week as a parameter, for cases where saturday is a business day, or even cases where there is just a couple of days of the week that are considered business days:

/// 

/// Calculate the number of business days between two dates, considering:
///  - Days of the week that are not considered business days.
///  - Holidays between these two dates.
/// 
/// First day of the desired 'span'.
/// Last day of the desired 'span'.
/// Days of the week that are considered to be business days, if NULL considers monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday as business days of the week.
/// Holidays, if NULL, considers no holiday.
/// Number of business days during the 'span'
public static int BusinessDaysUntil(this DateTime fDay, DateTime lDay, DayOfWeek[] BusinessDaysOfWeek = null, DateTime[] Holidays = null)
{
    if (BusinessDaysOfWeek == null)
        BusinessDaysOfWeek = new DayOfWeek[] { DayOfWeek.Monday, DayOfWeek.Tuesday, DayOfWeek.Wednesday, DayOfWeek.Thursday, DayOfWeek.Friday };
    if (Holidays == null)
        Holidays = new DateTime[] { };

    fDay = fDay.Date;
    lDay = lDay.Date;

    if (fDay > lDay)
        throw new ArgumentException("Incorrect last day " + lDay);

    int bDays = (lDay - fDay).Days + 1;
    int fullWeekCount = bDays / 7;
    int fullWeekCountMult = 7 - WeekDays.Length;
    //  Find out if there are weekends during the time exceedng the full weeks
    if (bDays > (fullWeekCount * 7))
    {
        int fDayOfWeek = (int)fDay.DayOfWeek;
        int lDayOfWeek = (int)lDay.DayOfWeek;

        if (fDayOfWeek > lDayOfWeek)
            lDayOfWeek += 7;

        // If they are the same, we already covered it right before the Holiday subtraction
        if (lDayOfWeek != fDayOfWeek)
        {
            //  Here we need to see if any of the days between are considered business days
            for (int i = fDayOfWeek; i <= lDayOfWeek; i++)
                if (!WeekDays.Contains((DayOfWeek)(i > 6 ? i - 7 : i)))
                    bDays -= 1;
        }
    }

    //  Subtract the days that are not in WeekDays[] during the full weeks in the interval
    bDays -= (fullWeekCount * fullWeekCountMult);
    //  Subtract the number of bank holidays during the time interval
    bDays = bDays - Holidays.Select(x => x.Date).Count(x => fDay <= x && x <= lDay);

    return bDays;
}