Question

Currently, I am using <%= String.Format(“{0:MMM dd, yyyy}”, DateTime.Now)%> to get today’s date in Jul 27, 2011 format.

Now, I want to get today’s date from model instead of using String.Format in my view (whic is not a good way).

Anyone can help me how to do this in Model.

I am using Asp.net MVC2.

I tried in my property something like:

[DisplayName("Display Date")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MMM dd, yyyy}")] 
public DateTime DisplayDate { get; set; } 

And in view i tried:

<%= Html.DisplayFor(model => model.DisplayDate) %>

Answer 1

Weird, the following works great for me.

Model:

public class MyViewModel
{
    [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MMM dd, yyyy}")]
    public DateTime DisplayDate { get; set; }
}

Controller:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var model = new MyViewModel
        {
            DisplayDate = DateTime.Now
        };
        return View(model);
    }
}

View:

<%= Html.DisplayFor(model => model.DisplayDate) %>

Output HTML:

Jul 27, 2011