Get the previous month's first and last day dates in c#

I can't think of an easy one or two liner that would get the previous months first day and last day.

I am LINQ-ifying a survey web app, and they squeezed a new requirement in.

The survey must include all of the service requests for the previous month. So if it is April 15th, I need all of Marches request ids.

var RequestIds = (from r in rdc.request 
                  where r.dteCreated >= LastMonthsFirstDate && 
                  r.dteCreated <= LastMonthsLastDate 
                  select r.intRequestId);

I just can't think of the dates easily without a switch. Unless I'm blind and overlooking an internal method of doing it.

Solution 1:

var today = DateTime.Today;
var month = new DateTime(today.Year, today.Month, 1);       
var first = month.AddMonths(-1);
var last = month.AddDays(-1);

In-line them if you really need one or two lines.

Solution 2:

The way I've done this in the past is first get the first day of this month

dFirstDayOfThisMonth = DateTime.Today.AddDays( - ( DateTime.Today.Day - 1 ) );

Then subtract a day to get end of last month

dLastDayOfLastMonth = dFirstDayOfThisMonth.AddDays (-1);

Then subtract a month to get first day of previous month

dFirstDayOfLastMonth = dFirstDayOfThisMonth.AddMonths(-1);

Solution 3:

using Fluent DateTime https://github.com/FluentDateTime/FluentDateTime

        var lastMonth = 1.Months().Ago().Date;
        var firstDayOfMonth = lastMonth.FirstDayOfMonth();
        var lastDayOfMonth = lastMonth.LastDayOfMonth();

Solution 4:

DateTime LastMonthLastDate = DateTime.Today.AddDays(0 - DateTime.Today.Day);
DateTime LastMonthFirstDate = LastMonthLastDate.AddDays(1 - LastMonthLastDate.Day);