Question

I need to find 2 elegant complete implementations of

public static DateTime AddBusinessDays(this DateTime date, int days)
{
 // code here
}

and 

public static int GetBusinessDays(this DateTime start, DateTime end)
{
 // code here
}

O(1) preferable (no loops).

EDIT:
By business days i mean working days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). No holidays, just weekends excluded.

I already have some ugly solutions that seem to work but i wonder if there are elegant ways to do this. Thanks

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This is what i’ve written so far. It works in all cases and does negatives too.
Still need a GetBusinessDays implementation

public static DateTime AddBusinessDays(this DateTime startDate,
                                         int businessDays)
{
    int direction = Math.Sign(businessDays);
    if(direction == 1)
    {
        if(startDate.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
        {
            startDate = startDate.AddDays(2);
            businessDays = businessDays - 1;
        }
        else if(startDate.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
        {
            startDate = startDate.AddDays(1);
            businessDays = businessDays - 1;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if(startDate.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
        {
            startDate = startDate.AddDays(-1);
            businessDays = businessDays + 1;
        }
        else if(startDate.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
        {
            startDate = startDate.AddDays(-2);
            businessDays = businessDays + 1;
        }
    }

    int initialDayOfWeek = (int)startDate.DayOfWeek;

    int weeksBase = Math.Abs(businessDays / 5);
    int addDays = Math.Abs(businessDays % 5);

    if((direction == 1 && addDays + initialDayOfWeek > 5) ||
         (direction == -1 && addDays >= initialDayOfWeek))
    {
        addDays += 2;
    }

    int totalDays = (weeksBase * 7) + addDays;
    return startDate.AddDays(totalDays * direction);
}

Answer 1

Latest attempt for your first function:

public static DateTime AddBusinessDays(DateTime date, int days)
{
    if (days < 0)
    {
        throw new ArgumentException("days cannot be negative", "days");
    }

    if (days == 0) return date;

    if (date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
    {
        date = date.AddDays(2);
        days -= 1;
    }
    else if (date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
    {
        date = date.AddDays(1);
        days -= 1;
    }

    date = date.AddDays(days / 5 * 7);
    int extraDays = days % 5;

    if ((int)date.DayOfWeek + extraDays > 5)
    {
        extraDays += 2;
    }

    return date.AddDays(extraDays);

}

The second function, GetBusinessDays, can be implemented as follows:

public static int GetBusinessDays(DateTime start, DateTime end)
{
    if (start.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
    {
        start = start.AddDays(2);
    }
    else if (start.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
    {
        start = start.AddDays(1);
    }

    if (end.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
    {
        end = end.AddDays(-1);
    }
    else if (end.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
    {
        end = end.AddDays(-2);
    }

    int diff = (int)end.Subtract(start).TotalDays;

    int result = diff / 7 * 5 + diff % 7;

    if (end.DayOfWeek < start.DayOfWeek)
    {
        return result - 2;
    }
    else{
        return result;
    }
}