How to initialize a DateTime field?

Question

I am absolutly new in C# (I came from Java) and I have a very stupid problem

I have to initialize some DateTime fields into an object but I have som

Answer 1

mySmallVuln.Published = new DateTime(1998,04,30);

Or perhaps like this

var date = DateTime.MinValue;
if (DateTime.TryParse("1998/04/30", out date))
{
    //Sucess...
    mySmallVuln.Published = date;
}