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That may be a throw-away line but I'll respond anyway. That doesn't seem to be a reason not to suggest it. If someone refuses to see the value in it then it's on them that they will never be a...

Technically, DirectCast is the correct one to use if you're performing a cast and CType is the correct one to use if you are or may be performing a conversion. CDate, CStr, etc, produce the same IL...

Yes you had, because you were already doing so. If you have a .NET DateTime value, which you do because that's what ADO.NET returns when retrieving native date values from a database, then the only...