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

I guess personally I'd say its best or easiest to do it via a strongly typed page and some defined model class but if you want it to be something that lives in the binder I would do it this way:

public class SomeTypeBinder : IModelBinder
{
    public object GetValue(ControllerContext controllerContext, string modelName,
                              Type modelType, ModelStateDictionary modelState)
    {
        SomeType temp = new SomeType();
        //assign values normally
        //If an error then add formatted date to ViewState
        controllerContext.Controller.ViewData.Add("FormattedDate",
                              temp.Date.ToShortDateString());
    }
}

And then use that in the view when creating the textbox i.e. :

<%= Html.TextBox("FormattedDate") %>

Hope that helps.