AddBusinessDays and GetBusinessDays

Latest attempt for your first function:

public static DateTime AddBusinessDays(DateTime date, int days)
{
    if (days < 0)
    {
        throw new ArgumentException("days cannot be negative", "days");
    }

    if (days == 0) return date;

    if (date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
    {
        date = date.AddDays(2);
        days -= 1;
    }
    else if (date.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
    {
        date = date.AddDays(1);
        days -= 1;
    }

    date = date.AddDays(days / 5 * 7);
    int extraDays = days % 5;

    if ((int)date.DayOfWeek + extraDays > 5)
    {
        extraDays += 2;
    }

    return date.AddDays(extraDays);

}

The second function, GetBusinessDays, can be implemented as follows:

public static int GetBusinessDays(DateTime start, DateTime end)
{
    if (start.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
    {
        start = start.AddDays(2);
    }
    else if (start.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
    {
        start = start.AddDays(1);
    }

    if (end.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday)
    {
        end = end.AddDays(-1);
    }
    else if (end.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday)
    {
        end = end.AddDays(-2);
    }

    int diff = (int)end.Subtract(start).TotalDays;

    int result = diff / 7 * 5 + diff % 7;

    if (end.DayOfWeek < start.DayOfWeek)
    {
        return result - 2;
    }
    else{
        return result;
    }
}

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