Html DisplayFor - DateFormat mm dd yyyy

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I have the following razor code that I want to have mm dd yyyy date format    Audit Date   Html DisplayFor Model   gt  Model AuditDate    I have tried number of different approaches but none of that approaches works in my situation   my AuditDate is a DateTime  type  I have tried something like this and got this error    Html DisplayFor Model   gt  Model AuditDate Value ToShortDateString      Additional information  Templates can be used only with field access  property access  single-dimension array index  or single-parameter custom indexer expressions   Tried this    Html DisplayFor Model   gt  Model AuditDate ToString  mm dd yyyy      No overload for method  ToString  takes 1 arguments

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You can use the  DisplayFormat  attribute on your view model as you want to apply this format for the whole project    DisplayFormat ApplyFormatInEditMode   true  DataFormatString     0 dd MM yyyy     public Nullable lt System DateTime gt  Date   get  set

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If you use DisplayFor  then you have to either define the format via the DisplayFormat attribute or use a custom display template   A full list of preset DisplayFormatString s can be found here     DisplayFormat DataFormatString     0 d     public DateTime  AuditDate   get  set      Or create the view Views Shared DisplayTemplates DateTime cshtml    model DateTime   if  Model HasValue         Model Value ToString  MM dd yyyy       That will apply to all DateTimes  though  even ones where you re encoding the time as well  If you want it to apply only to date-only properties  then use Views Shared DisplayTemplates Date cshtml and the DataType attribute on your property    DataType DataType Date   public DateTime  AuditDate   get  set      The final option is to not use DisplayFor and instead render the property directly    if  Model AuditDate HasValue         Model AuditDate Value ToString  MM dd yyyy

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I have been using this change in my code    old code      lt td gt     Html DisplayFor modelItem   gt  item dataakt    lt  td gt    new     lt td gt    Convert ToDateTime item dataakt  ToString  dd MM yyyy    lt  td gt

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After some digging and I ended up setting Thread s CurrentCulture value to have CultureInfo  en-US   in the controller   s action method   Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture   new System Globalization CultureInfo  en-US       Here are some other options if you want have this setting on every view   About CurrentCulture property value      The CultureInfo object that is returned by this property  together   with its associated objects  determine the default format for dates    times  numbers  currency values  the sorting order of text  casing   conventions  and string comparisons    Source  MSDN CurrentCulture  Note   The previous CurrentCulture property setting is probably optional if the controller is already running with CultureInfo  en-US   or similar where the date format is  MM dd yyyy    After setting the CurrentCulture property  add code block to convert the date to  M d yyyy  format in the view         code block      var shortDateLocalFormat           if  Model AuditDate HasValue           shortDateLocalFormat     DateTime Model AuditDate  ToString  M d yyyy             alternative way below          shortDateLocalFormat     DateTime Model AuditDate  ToString  d              shortDateLocalFormat   Above the  shortDateLocalFormat variable is formatted with ToString  M d yyyy   works  If ToString  MM dd yyyy   is used  like I did first then you end up having leading zero issue  Also like recommended by Tommy ToString  d   works as well  Actually  d  stands for    Short date pattern    and can be used with different culture language formats too    I guess the code block from above can also be substituted with some cool helper method or similar   For example   helper DateFormatter object date        var shortDateLocalFormat           if  date    null                 shortDateLocalFormat     DateTime date  ToString  M d yyyy                 shortDateLocalFormat     can be used with this helper call   DateFormatter Model AuditDate    Update  I found out that there   s alternative way of doing the same thing when DateTime ToString String  IFormatProvider  method is used  When this method is used then there   s no need to use Thread   s CurrentCulture property  The CultureInfo  en-US   is passed as second argument --  IFormatProvider to DateTime ToString String  IFormatProvider  method   Modified helper method    helper DateFormatter object date        var shortDateLocalFormat           if  date    null           shortDateLocalFormat     DateTime date  ToString  d   new System Globalization CultureInfo  en-US                 shortDateLocalFormat      NET Fiddle

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I implemented the similar thing this way    Use TextBoxFor to display date in required format and make the field readonly     Html TextBoxFor Model   gt  Model AuditDate    0 dd-MMM-yyyy    new  class  my-style    readonly true      2  Give zero outline and zero border to TextBox in css    my-style       outline  none      border  none      And      Its done

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ChrisPratt s answer about the use of Display Template is wrong  The correct code to make it work is    model DateTime    if  Model HasValue         Convert ToDateTime Model  ToString  MM dd yyyy       That s because  ToString   for Nullable lt DateTime gt  doesn t accept Format parameter

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In View Replace this    Html DisplayFor Model   gt  Model AuditDate Value ToShortDateString      With    if  Model AuditDate Value    null   Model AuditDate Value ToString  dd MM yyyy    else   Html DisplayFor Model   gt  Model AuditDate     Explanation  If the AuditDate value is not null then it will format the date to dd MM yyyy  otherwise leave it as it is because it has no value

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I had a similar issue on my controller and here is what worked for me   model DateSigned HasValue   model DateSigned Value ToString  MM dd yyyy           DateSigned  is the value from my model The line reads  if the model value has a value then format the value  otherwise show nothing   Hope that helps

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If you are simply outputting the value of that model property  you don t need the DisplayFor html helper  just call it directly with the proper string formatting   Audit Date   Model AuditDate Value ToString  d    Should output  Audit Date  1 21 2015  Lastly  your audit date could be null  so you should do the conditional check before you attempt to format a nullable value    if  item AuditDate   null     Model AuditDate Value ToString  d      Googling the error that you are getting provides this answer  which shows that the error is from using the word Model in your Html helpers   For instance  using  Html DisplayFor Model  gt Model someProperty    Change these to use something else other than Model  for instance   Html DisplayFor x  gt x someProperty  or change the capital M to a lowercase m in these helpers

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Maybe try simply     Model AuditDate HasValue   Model AuditDate ToString  mm dd yyyy     String Empty    also you can use many type of string format like  ToString  dd MMM  yyyy    ToString  d   etc

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You could use Convert    lt td gt  Convert ToString string Format   0 dd MM yyyy    o frm dt   lt  td gt

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For me it was enough to use   DataType DataType Date    DisplayFormat DataFormatString     0 dd MM yyyy     public DateTime StartDate   set  get

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This is the best way to get a simple date string      DateTime Parse Html DisplayFor Model   gt  Model AuditDate  ToString    ToShortDateString

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See this answer about the No overload for method  ToString  takes 1 arguments error   You cannot format a nullable DateTime - you have to use the DateTime Value property    Model AuditDate HasValue   Model AuditDate Value ToString  mm dd yyyy     string Empty      Tip  It is always helpful to work this stuff out in a standard class with intellisense before putting it into a view  In this case  you would get a compile error which would be easy to spot in a class

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