Remove time when exported to pdf - vb.net

Question

My datagridview doesn't have the time in datePurchased column. But when I exported it to PDF, it already includes the time. I need only the date not the time. Below is the sample code
//For exporting to pdf
Private Sub ExportButton_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles ExportButton.Click
connection.Close()
connection.Open()
Dim pdfTable As New PdfPTable(ReportDataGridView.ColumnCount)
pdfTable.DefaultCell.Padding = 1
pdfTable.WidthPercentage = 100
pdfTable.DefaultCell.HorizontalAlignment = Element. ALIGN_CENTER
Dim ptable As New Font(iTextSharp.text.Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 11, iTextSharp.text.Font.BOLD, BaseColor.BLACK)
For Each column As DataGridViewColumn in ReportDataGridView.Columns
Dim cell as new PdfPCell(New Phrase(New Chunk(column.HeaderText, ptable)))
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER
cell.FixedHeight = 30
pdfTable.AddCell(cell)
Next
For Each row as DataGridViewRow In ReportDataGridView.Rows
For each cell as DataGridViewCell In row.Cells
pdfTable.AddCell(cell.Value.ToString)
Next
Next
Dim folderpath As String = "C:\PDFs\"
If Not Directory.Exists(folderpath) Then
Directory.CreateDirectory(folderpath)
End If
Using sfd as New
SaveFileDialog()
sfd.ShowDialog()
sfd.OverWritePrompt = True
sfd.Title =" Save As"
sfd.AddExtension = True
sfd.DefaultExt = ".pdf"
Using stream As New FileStream(sfd.FileName & ".pdf",
FileMode.Create)
Dim pdfdoc As New
Document (PageSize.LETTER, 36.0F, 36.0F,36.0F,36.0F)
PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfdoc.stream)
pdfdoc.Open()
pdfdoc.Add(pdfTable)
pdfdoc.Close()
stream.Close()
If File.Exists("path") Then
File.AppendAllText("path", "contents")
End If
pdfdoc.Close()
stream.Close()
End Using
End Using
End Sub
If you would ask me what's the data type of DatePurchased, it is date. I used date not datetime. Please help!

Answer 1

You would have to detect dates and explicitly format without time, e.g.
For each cell as DataGridViewCell In row.Cells
Dim cellValue = cell.Value
pdfTable.AddCell(If(TypeOf cellValue Is Date,
CDate(cellValue).ToShortDateString(),
cellValue.ToString()))
Next