Question

When I try to convert date to string I get this error. So how can I fix this error ?

Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index, or single-parameter custom indexer expressions.

Here is my view:

<div class="editor-field">
   @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.date.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy"), new { @class = "date", @required = "required" })
     @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.date)
   </div>

Then I have edited my class with the annotation then same result here is my class. My date parameter in my database table which name is “contents” which I used in my view “x=>x.date”

 public class Common
    {

        [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}")]
        public DateTime date { get; set; }

public class CommonModel
        {
            public content content{ get; set; }


        }

}

Answer 1

Try This:

1) Put Data Annotation in your class like:

[DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}")]
public DateTime date { get; set; }

2) Replacing this line:

@Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.date.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy"), new { @class = "date", @required = "required" })

for this should work:

@Html.EditorFor(x => x.date, new { @class = "date", @required = "required" })