ASP.NET MVC Display Format Does Not Format DateTime for Date String Only

Question

I have set the display format setting

<DisplayName("birthdate")> _ <DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode:=True, DataFormatString:="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}")> _ Public Property BirthDate As DateTime 

Then in view I have the following

 <%: Html.TextBoxFor(Function(model) model.BirthDate, Model.BirthDate)%> <%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(Function(model) model.BirthDate) %> 

The value that should be "must"

6/24/1982

But unfortunately, the conclusion

6/24/1982 12:00:00 AM

Does anyone know what I'm missing here?

Answer 1

Digging through Codeplex's MVC2 source, I suppose you need to use EditorFor not TextBoxFor . TextBoxFor uses

 string valueParameter = Convert.ToString(value, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture); 

ignoring format attributes (although they looked through them through ModelMetadata classes), while EditorFor and DisplayFor are built on internal TemplateHelpers that use format attributes.