[C#] DayOfWeek as numeric

(Reposted from my mscorlib blog)

I'm writing a timecard program for our workplace. I was trying to get the day of the week as a number (today being Friday, I was looking for a '5'). I couldn't find much info on Google, aside from some article talking about something unrelated. I saw a snippit of code there. Too easy, I thought:

int dayofweek = (int)DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek;

And that's it. *slaps forehead* I suppose I should have tried that first since it's a two-second check. Oh well. Since I was searching Google without much luck, I hope to get this out there so others might see it.

As for finding a specific day of the week, I went with this for now:

int dayofweek = (int)DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek;
int offset = 0;
DateTime thisFriday;

if (dayofweek < 5)
offset = 5 - dayofweek;
else
offset = dayofweek - 5;
thisFriday = DateTime.Now.AddDays(offset);

I spent about 5 minutes doing that. It calculates when the next upcoming Friday is (if the current date is Friday, then it shows that). I've set it in to a for loop to spit out a month of Fridays by combining it with AddDays. As always, let me know if there's a better way.

Comments from mscorlib

I resolve with

(Int32)Enum.Parse(typeof(DayOfWeek), dpartenza.DayOfWeek.ToString())

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