How to get dates between two dates in C#

Question

I would like to get dates between two dates. Instead of expected 9 different dates, I get 875287 and run out of memory. What would be the problem with the code below?

StartDate value is 01/04/2016 00:00:00

EndDate value is 10/04/2016 00:00:00

var selectedDates = new List<DateTime?>();  for (var date = StartDate; date <= EndDate; date.Value.AddDays(1)) {     selectedDates.Add(date); } 

Answer 1

You aren't assigning the value of date.Value.AddDays(1) to anything, so it ends up in an infinite loop. You'd need to change your code so that date is set to the result of AddDays.

for (var date = StartDate; date <= EndDate; date = date.AddDays(1)) {     selectedDates.Add(date); } 

Answer 2

LINQ solution (let's generate selectedDates):

  var selectedDates = Enumerable     .Range(0, int.MaxValue)     .Select(index => new DateTime?(StartDate.AddDays(index)))     .TakeWhile(date => date <= EndDate)     .ToList();