Finding the date of monday in a week with VB.NET - 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 next week it'd be 16/11/2009.
I managed to get somewhere in the forms of code, but all I got was 'cannot convert to Integer' errors. I was using Date.Today and AddDays().
Thanks for any help. :)

Answer 1

If Sunday is the first day of week, you can simply do this:
Dim today As Date = Date.Today
Dim dayDiff As Integer = today.DayOfWeek - DayOfWeek.Monday
Dim monday As Date = today.AddDays(-dayDiff)
If Monday is the first day of week:
Dim today As Date = Date.Today
Dim dayIndex As Integer = today.DayOfWeek
If dayIndex < DayOfWeek.Monday Then
dayIndex += 7 'Monday is first day of week, no day of week should have a smaller index
End If
Dim dayDiff As Integer = dayIndex - DayOfWeek.Monday
Dim monday As Date = today.AddDays(-dayDiff)

Answer 2

DateTime.DayOfWeek is an enum that indicates what day a given date is. As Monday is 1, you can find the Monday of the current week using the following code:
Dim monday As DateTime = Today.AddDays((Today.DayOfWeek - DayOfWeek.Monday) * -1)

Answer 3

=Format(DateAdd("d", (-1 * WeekDay(Date.Today()) + 2), Date.Today()), "dd/MM/yyyy")

Answer 4

A simple method should get you what you want:
private static DateTime GetMondayForWeek(DateTime inputDate)
{
int daysFromMonday = inputDate.DayOfWeek - DayOfWeek.Monday;
return inputDate.AddDays(-daysFromMonday);
}
You could also extend it for any day that you want as well:
private static DateTime GetDayForWeek(DateTime inputDate, DayOfWeek inputDay)
{
int daysAway = inputDate.DayOfWeek - inputDay;
return inputDate.AddDays(-daysAway);
}
To call the first example just use something like:
DateTime mondayDate = GetMondayForWeek(new DateTime(2009, 11, 15));
Console.WriteLine(mondayDate);

Answer 5

Another approach if Monday is the first day, is this:
Dim today As Date = Date.Today
Dim dayDiff As Integer = today.DayOfWeek - DayOfWeek.Monday
Dim monday As Date = today.AddDays(-dayDiff)
dayDiff = DayOfWeek.Saturday - today.DayOfWeek + 1
Dim sunday As Date = today.AddDays(dayDiff)

Answer 6

There is a day of week method that you can use
Dim instance As DateTime
Dim value As DayOfWeek
value = instance.DayOfWeek
see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.dayofweek.aspx

Answer 7

I just did this in a project I'm working on --I promise, it's correct. This is a method that returns the nth monday after the given date. If the given date is a monday, it returns the next monday.
Public Function GetSubsequentMonday(ByVal startDate As DateTime, ByVal subsequentWeeks As Integer) As DateTime
Dim dayOfWeek As Integer = CInt(startDate.DayOfWeek)
Dim daysUntilMonday As Integer = (Math.Sign(dayOfWeek) * (7 - dayOfWeek)) + 1
'number of days until the next Monday
Return startDate.AddDays(CDbl((daysUntilMonday + (7 * (subsequentWeeks - 1)))))
End Function

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

And if your week starts from Monday then you can use something like this:
DateTime mondayDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(((DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday?7: (int)DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek) - 1)*-1);
DateTime sundayDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(7 - (DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday?7: (int)DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek ));

Answer 10

Dim dayOfWeek = CInt(DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek)
Dim startOfWeek = DateTime.Today.AddDays(+1 * dayOfWeek).ToShortDateString
Dim endOfWeek = DateTime.Today.AddDays(6 + dayOfWeek).AddSeconds(+1).ToShortDateString
MessageBox.Show(startOfWeek)
MessageBox.Show(endOfWeek)
Example:
If today is 03/09/2020,
startOfWeek will be 07/09/2020 and
endOfWeek will be 13/09/2020.