Question

I have this Model

public class SalesModelView
{
    [Key]
    public int SaleId { get; set; }
    public int ShopId { get; set; }
    public string ShopName { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Date")]
    public DateTime SaleDate { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [Display(Name = "Timer")]
    [Range(0, 24)]
    public int Hours { get; set; }
    [Required]
    [Display(Name = "Salg")]
    public Decimal Sales { get; set; }
    [Required]
    [Display(Name = "Behandlinger")]
    public Decimal Treatments { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Omsætning")]
    public Decimal Turnover { get; set; }
    [Display(Name = "Oms./Timer")]
    public Decimal TurnoverHour { get; set; }
    [Display(Name = "Effektivitet")]
    public Decimal Efficiency { get; set; }
}

and in Danish locale a decimal normally shows as 280.800,00, so . as thousands and ,as decimal place.

My view shows the correct stuff

But when saving back to my model, I get the . as a decimal separator, passing all the values to:

(original image for better visualization)

So the number 546.400 is converted to 546,4

I already tried with no luck to hook up the form submit and replace all . with nothing, like

$("form").bind("submit", function() {
  $(".number").each(function(){
    var v = $(this).val(v).replace('.','');
    $(this).val(v);
  });
});

What technique do you guys use for this kinda things?

P.S. I did read Hanselman’s article but I still got the exact same problems, it’s when I pass it to the Controller that goes wrong, all is well in the View

Answer 1

The DefaultModelBinder doesn’t work well in these situations. You could write your own or make sure to submit en-US values. Here is an article talking about it.

Model Binding Decimal Values