How to standardize Datetime format for all type fields without using Displayfor or Editorfor in MVC?

Question

In many cases in the application we have to use something like:

@Html.Raw(item.data.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"))

can’t be DisplayFor nor EditorFor in no case and we have to show the Brazilian date format. How to standardize this at once using the MVC?

Answer 1

How to standardize this at once using MVC?

Using DisplayFor and EditorFor. Anything other than that, considering only Razor, is incorrect.

Another thing is about using only the date, not the time (DateTime, in the case, has the two components). In this case, decorate your Model with the type of data ([DataType]) corresponding to date only format (DataType.Date):

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

public class SeuModel
{
    ...
    [DataType(DataType.Date)]
    public DateTime Data { get; set; }
    ...
}

Remembering that this generates a <input type="date" />, and not a <input type="text" />, that does not have date formatting by browser default.

Answer 2

Hello I find it a better practice to create a component that generates the text on the screen.

Example:

namespace IM.Framework.MVC
{
    using System;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Web.Mvc;

    public static partial class IMHelper
    {
        public static MvcHtmlString IMInputDate(this HtmlHelper html, string Id, string Caption, string PlaceHolder, int Size, DateTime Value)
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            sb.Append(GeraDiv(new string[] { "input-control", "text", "span" + Size.ToString() }));
            sb.Append(IMLabel(html, Id, Caption));
            sb.Append(String.Format("<input type='text' id='{0}' placeholder='{1}' value='{2}' class='inputPadrao inputDate' />",
                Id, PlaceHolder, Value));
            sb.Append(FechaTag("div"));

            return new MvcHtmlString(sb.ToString());
        }
    }
}

In View use instead of

@Html.Raw(item.data.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"))

utilize:

@IMHelper.IMInputDate("id_do_campo", "Título", 10, item.data)

Remembering that in Iminputdate I use code that depends on other functions not available here. But the idea is just to give a "Light".