How to get last Friday of month(s) using .NET

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Published on 2010-04-26T05:56:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 6:03 UTC
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I have a function that returns me only the fridays from a range of dates

public static List<DateTime> GetDates(DateTime startDate, int weeks)
{
    int days = weeks * 7;

    //Get the whole date range 
    List<DateTime> dtFulldateRange = Enumerable.Range(-days, days).Select(i => startDate.AddDays(i)).ToList();

    //Get only the fridays from the date range
    List<DateTime> dtOnlyFridays = (from dtFridays in dtFulldateRange
                                    where dtFridays.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Friday
                                    select dtFridays).ToList();
    return dtOnlyFridays;
}

Purpose of the function: "List of dates from the Week number specified till the StartDate i.e. If startdate is 23rd April, 2010 and the week number is 1,then the program should return the dates from 16th April, 2010 till the startddate".

I am calling the function as:

DateTime StartDate1 = DateTime.ParseExact("20100430", "yyyyMMdd", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
List<DateTime> dtList = Utility.GetDates(StartDate1, 4).ToList();

Now the requirement has changed a bit. I need to find out only the last Fridays of every month. The input to the function will remain same.

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