VB.net: Date without time

Question

How do you format the date time to just date?

For example, this is what I retrieved from the database: 12/31/2008 12:00:00 AM, but I just want to show the date and

Answer 1

Format datetime to short date string and convert back to date

CDate(YourDate.ToString("d"))

Or use short date string

CDate(YourDate.ToShortDateString)