How to get All Dates in a given month in C#

Question

Here’s a solution with LINQ:

public static List<DateTime> GetDates(int year, int month)
{
   return Enumerable.Range(1, DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month))  // Days: 1, 2 ... 31 etc.
                    .Select(day => new DateTime(year, month, day)) // Map each day to a date
                    .ToList(); // Load dates into a list
}

And one with a for-loop:

public static List<DateTime> GetDates(int year, int month)
{
   var dates = new List<DateTime>();

   // Loop from the first day of the month until we hit the next month, moving forward a day at a time
   for (var date = new DateTime(year, month, 1); date.Month == month; date = date.AddDays(1))
   {
      dates.Add(date);       
   }

   return dates;
}

You might want to consider returning a streaming sequence of dates instead of List<DateTime>, letting the caller decide whether to load the dates into a list or array / post-process them / partially iterate them etc. For the LINQ version, you can accomplish this by removing the call to ToList(). For the for-loop, you would want to implement an iterator. In both cases, the return-type would have to be changed to IEnumerable<DateTime>.

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