How to render a DateTime in a specific format in ASP NET MVC 3

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If I have in my model class a property of type DateTime how can I render it in a specific format - for example in the format which ToLongDateString   returns   I have tried this      Html DisplayFor modelItem   gt  item MyDateTime ToLongDateString         which throws an exception because the expression must point to a property or field  And this       var val   item MyDateTime ToLongDateString      Html DisplayFor modelItem   gt  val          which doesn t throw an exception  but the rendered output is empty  although val contains the expected value  as I could see in the debugger    Thanks for tips in advance   Edit  ToLongDateString is only an example  What I actually want to use instead of ToLongDateString is a custom extension method of DateTime and DateTime    public static string FormatDateTimeHideMidNight this DateTime dateTime        if  dateTime TimeOfDay    TimeSpan Zero          return dateTime ToString  d        else         return dateTime ToString  g       public static string FormatDateTimeHideMidNight this DateTime  dateTime        if  dateTime HasValue          return dateTime Value FormatDateTimeHideMidNight        else         return         So  I think I cannot use the DisplayFormat attribute and DataFormatString parameter on the ViewModel properties

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Had the same problem recently    I discovered that simply defining DataType as Date in the model works as well  using Code First approach    DataType DataType Date   public DateTime Added   get  set

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you can do like this        item Date Value Tostring  dd-MMM-yy

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if I just want to display the date in short format I just use  Model date ToShortDateString   and it prints the date in

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If all you want to do is display the date with a specific format  just call    String Format myFormat  Model MyDateTime    Using  Html DisplayFor      is just extra work unless you are specifying a template  or need to use something that is built on templates  like iterating an IEnumerable lt T gt    Creating a template is simple enough  and can provide a lot of flexibility too   Create a folder in your views folder for the current controller  or shared views folder  called DisplayTemplates   Inside that folder  add a partial view with the model type you want to build the template for   In this case I added  Views Shared DisplayTemplates and added a partial view called ShortDateTime cshtml    model System DateTime   Model ToShortDateString     And now you can call that template with the following line    Html DisplayFor m   gt  m MyDateTime   ShortDateTime

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works for me    lt   Model MyDateTime ToString  dd-MMM-yyyy    gt

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If all you want to do is display the date with a specific format  just call    Model LeadDate ToString  dd-MMM-yyyy     Model LeadDate ToString  MM dd yy     It will result in following format   26-Apr-2013  04 26 13

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In MVC5 I d use  if your model is the datetime  string dt   Model ToString  dd MM yyy       Or if your model contains the property of the datetime  string dt   Model dateinModel ToString  dd MM yyy       Here s the official meaning of the Formats   https   msdn microsoft com en-us library 8kb3ddd4 v vs 110  aspx

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this will display in dd MM yyyy format in your View  In View   instead of DisplayFor use this code   lt td gt     item Startdate HasValue   item Startdate Value ToString  dd MM yyyy      Date is Empty     lt  td   it also checks if the value is null in date column  if true then it will display Date is Empty or the actual formatted date from the column   Hope helps someone

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Only View File Adjust like this  You may try this    Html FormatValue   object Convert ChangeType item transdate  typeof object                                   0  yyyy-MM-dd      item transdate it is your DateTime type data

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I use the following approach to inline format and display a date property from the model    Html ValueFor model   gt  model MyDateTime    0 dd MM yyyy      Otherwise when populating a TextBox or Editor you could do like  Darin suggested  decorated the attribute with a  DisplayFormat  attribute

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If all your DateTime types are rendered the same way you can use a custom DateTime display template     In your Views folder create a folder named  DisplayTemplates  either under your controller specific views folder  or under  Shared  folder  these work similar to partials    Inside create a file named DateTime cshtml that takes DateTime as the  model and code how you want to render your date    model System DateTime  Model ToLongDateString     Now you can just use this in your views and it should work    Html DisplayFor mod   gt  mod MyDateTime    As long as you follow the convention of adding it to the  DisplayTemplates  folder and naming the file to match the type your are displaying  MVC will automatically use that to display your values   This also works for editing scenarios using  EditorTemplates    Here s some more information on templates

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My preference is to keep the formatting details with the view and not the viewmodel  So in MVC4 Razor    Html TextBoxFor model   gt  model DateTime    0 d       datetime format reference  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library az4se3k1 v vs 71  aspx  Then I have a JQuery datepicker bound to it  and that put s the date in as a different format   doh   Looks like I need to set the datepicker s format to the same formatting   So I m storing the System Globalization formatting in a data-  attribute and collecting it when setting up the    Html TextBoxFor      model   gt  model DateTime Date         0 d         new                  class    datePicker             data date format System Globalization CultureInfo                            CurrentUICulture DateTimeFormat ShortDatePattern             And here s the sucky part  the formats of  net and datepicker do not match  so hackery is needed       datePicker   each function          this  datepicker           dateFormat   this  data  dateFormat   toLowerCase   replace  yyyy   yy                 that s kind of weak  but should cover a lot of cases

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Simple formatted output inside of the model    String Format   0 d    model CreatedOn    or in the foreach loop   String Format   0 d    item CreatedOn

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string datein   Convert ToDateTime item InDate  ToString  dd MM yyyy               datein

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You could decorate your view model property with the  DisplayFormat  attribute    DisplayFormat DataFormatString     0 dd MM yyyy                    ApplyFormatInEditMode   true   public DateTime MyDateTime   get  set      and in your view    Html EditorFor x   gt  x MyDate    or  for displaying the value    Html DisplayFor x   gt  x MyDate    Another possibility  which I don t recommend  is to use a weakly typed helper    Html TextBox  MyDate   Model MyDate ToLongDateString

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