formatting DateTime error “Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index..”

Question

In MVC Razor view, I am trying to format a DateTime field to display time only. Using below code I am getting error \"Templates can be used only with field access, property acce

Answer 1

You have a very simple way to solve this and you might run into this problem more than once.

To understand what's happening, you are passing a method as a parameter. Instead, you should be passing an expression.

Instead of doing this

@(Html.DisplayFor(m=>row.LastUpdatedDate.ToString("HH:mm:ss")))

You should do

var date = row.LastUpdatedDate.ToString("HH:mm:ss")
@Html.DisplayFor(m=> date)