Question

I have an entity that is managed by a WCF service, so the entity is generated through service reference so I cannot annotate it to specify data format.
It is decimal and must be formatted with 6 decimals.
How can I accomplish this in MVC3, in display and editor?

In display I could use

@Html.Display(format("{0:f4}", model.MyField))

It’s not very elegant, but it’s workable.
But how can I do this for formatting the editor with 4 decimals?

EDIT:

I found this answer to a similar question, but it gives me error in line

return html.TextBox(name, value, htmlAttributes);

Any idea how to solve it?

Thanks

Answer 1

I managed to make it as follows:

1. For display I used

   @string.Format("{0:f4}", Model.KPINumber)
   

2. for edit I used

   @Html.TextBox("KPINumber", string.Format("{0:f4}", Model.KPINumber))