Question

So the user can select 2 different dates, a start date and an end date from 2 calendars, when they click add the dates between&including the dates selected will be added to the Database, each date as a separate record.

This works fine however I don’t want weekends to be added to the Database.

I’ve updated the UI of datepicker http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/datePicker/v2/demo/datePickerCustomCellRender.html
but if a user selects fri-mon for example fri,sat,sun and mon will be added to the Database.
I’ve tried to only run the code if datyofweek is not saturday or sunday

 public ActionResult listHolidays(Holiday holiday, int? PersonId, string HolidayDate, string endDate)
        {
            DateTime startDates = Convert.ToDateTime(HolidayDate),
                     endDates = Convert.ToDateTime(endDate);

            while (startDates <= endDates)
            {
                if (startDates.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Saturday || startDates.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Sunday)
                {
                    Holiday holiday1 = new Holiday();
                    holiday1.PersonId = PersonId.Value;
                    holiday1.HolidayDate = startDates;

                    db.Holidays.AddObject(holiday1);
                    db.SaveChanges();


                     startDates = startDates.AddDays(1);
                }
            }

            return RedirectToAction("Index");
        }

any help?
Thanks

Answer 1

You need to use AND instead of OR:

if (startDates.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Saturday && startDates.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Sunday)

Your current condition will always be true. If startDates is DayOfWeek.Saturday, it is not DayOfWeek.Sunday and vice versa.

After that, you need to put the startDates = startDates.AddDays(1); outside the if.

Otherwise, you would have an endless loop, because as soon as startDates is DayOfWeek.Saturday, it will no longer be incremented.