asp.net mvc - Date only from TextBoxFor()

Question

I'm having trouble displaying the only date part of a DateTime into a textbox using TextBoxFor<,>(expression, htmlAttributes).

The model is based on Linq2SQL, field is a DateTime on SQL and in the Entity model.

Failed:

<%= Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.dtArrivalDate, String.Format("{0:dd/MM/yyyy}", Model.dtArrivalDate))%>

This trick seems to be depreciated, any string value in the object htmlAttribute is ignored.

Failed:

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

I would like to store and display only the date part on the details/edit view, without the "00:00:00" part.

Answer 1

MVC4 has solved this problem by adding a new TextBoxFor overload, which takes a string format parameter. You can now simply do this:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EndDate, "{0:d MMM yyyy}")

There's also an overload that takes html attributes, so you can set the CSS class, wire up datepickers, etc:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EndDate, "{0:d MMM yyyy}", new { @class="input-large" })