Date instead of DateTime?

Question

From what I can tell Date and DateTime have the same functionality. Is there a reason why I would want to use one instead of the other?

Answer 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.

Answer 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