Format Date On Binding (ASP.NET MVC)

Question

In my ASP.net MVC app I have a view that looks like this:

...
Due Date
<%=Html.TextBox(\"due\")%>
...

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Answer 1

In order to get strongly typed access to your model in the code behind of your view you can do this:

public partial class SomethingView : ViewPage
{
}

Where T is the ViewData type that you want to pass in from your Action.

Then in your controller you would have an action :

public ActionResult Something(){
    T myObject = new T();
    T.Property = DateTime.Today();

    Return View("Something", myObject);
}

After that you have nice strongly typed model data in your view so you can do :

My Property
<%=Html.TextBox(ViewData.Model.Property.ToShortDateString())%>