DateTime recurrence pattern

[kettch]

Part of the application I'm working on requires scheduling function that is similar to the outlook meeting scheduler. It lets you schedule something for every x weeks on x days.

The problem that I am having is figuring out how to actually map those selections to specific dates. What would be the best way to find "next monday" or "next week on tuesday, wednesday and friday"?

I've fiddled around with it but can't seem to figure out anything concrete.

Any suggestions?

-Thanks

 

[bigtimmin]

Try DateDiff()

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[SqueakinSweep]

Finding next Monday

Dim x As Date = Date.Today
While x.DayOfWeek() <> DayOfWeek.Monday
    x = x.AddDays(1)
End While

Sweep
...if it works dont f*** with it
...if its f****ed blame someone else
...if its your fault that its f***ed, say and admit nothing.

 

[kettch]

I ended up using a loop, but it's a bit more complicated. The loop SquakinSweep provided is basically the one I came up with first. But because I had to use my own custom DayOfWeek enumeration (the default one isn't flagged) I had to do some juggling to get the custom one, and the one datetime uses to synch.

DateDiff won't work because I at runtime I only know the start date and all I know about the event date is that it is "the tuesday after next".

Thanks for all your help everybody