Question: I'm trying to find missing dates between two DateTime variables for a collection of DateTimes.

For example.

```
Collection
2010-01-01
2010-01-02
2010-01-03
2010-01-05

DateRange
2010-01-01 -> 2010-01-06

```

would give me a `List<DateTime>` of

```
2010-01-04
2010-01-06

```

I can think of a few was of implementing this but nothing clean and simple

Any ideas?

Answer: 
In .NET 2.0 :)

```
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        List<DateTime> dates = new List<DateTime>();
        dates.Add(new DateTime(2010, 01, 27));
        dates.Add(new DateTime(2010, 01, 30));
        dates.Add(new DateTime(2010, 01, 31));
        dates.Add(new DateTime(2010, 02, 01));

        DateTime startDate = new DateTime(2010, 01, 25);
        DateTime endDate = new DateTime(2010, 02, 02);

        List<DateTime> missingDates = new List<DateTime>(GetMissingDates(dates, startDate, endDate));

    }

    private static IEnumerable<DateTime> GetMissingDates(IList<DateTime> dates, DateTime startDate, DateTime endDate)
    {
        TimeSpan _timeStamp = endDate - startDate;
        DateTime _tempDateTime = startDate;
        IList<DateTime> _dateTimeRange = new List<DateTime>();
        IList<DateTime> _missingDates = new List<DateTime>();

        for (int i = 0; i <= _timeStamp.Days; i++)
        {
            _dateTimeRange.Add(_tempDateTime);
            _tempDateTime = _tempDateTime.AddDays(1);
        }

        foreach (DateTime dt in _dateTimeRange)
        {
            if (!dates.Contains(dt))
                yield return dt;
        }
    }

```
Lazy evaluated helper method aids in generating the list of dates to compare with. Might want to performance profile this method for large collections.

```
void Main()
{
    var dates = new[] {new DateTime(2000,1,1), new DateTime(2000,1,5)};
    DateHelper.Range(new DateTime(2000,1,1), new DateTime(2000,1,5)).Except(dates).Dump();
}

// Define other methods and classes here
public static class DateHelper {
    public static IEnumerable<DateTime> Range(DateTime start, DateTime end) {
        var days = end.Subtract(start).Days;
        var next = start;
        for(var i = 0; i<days; i++) {
            next = next.AddDays(1);
            yield return next;
        }
    }
}

```