DateDiff() minus one VisualBasic assembly

I’m not a big fan of using the Microsoft.VisualBasic assembly, I avoid it at all costs basically.

As we all know, the visual basic assembly comes with a large collection of built-in functions one of which is the DateDiff function. This takes two dates and a comparison value (e.g. “d” for day) and then spits out the difference.

Here’s the same thing just minus the visual basic usage:

DateTime firstDate = DateTime.Now;
DateTime secondDate = new DateTime(2005, 8, 20);
TimeSpan difference = secondDate.Subtract(firstDate);

// days: difference.Days

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