Date instead of DateTime?
Solution 1:
In VB.NET Date is an alias to System.DateTime, so yes, they're the same thing. You can see all the aliases in this chart on MSDN.
Solution 2:
C# has no Date type, but DateTimes do have a Date property which returns a DateTime with all of the time-related fields cleared out.
Specifically it returns:
A new object with the same date as this instance, and the time value set to 12:00:00 midnight (00:00:00).
VB.NET does have a Date type but it is equivalent to a CLR DateTime