ASP.NET MVC Display Format does not format DateTime to just Date string.

Question

I've got my display format setup as so

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

Then in the View I have the following

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

Meaning that the output "should" be

6/24/1982

But unfortunately, the output is

6/24/1982 12:00:00 AM

Does anyone know what I might be missing here?

Answer 1

Digging through the MVC2 source from Codeplex, my best guess is that you need to use EditorFor not TextBoxFor. TextBoxFor uses

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

ignoring the format attributes (although it did look them up through the ModelMetadata classes) whereas EditorFor and DisplayFor are built on the internal TemplateHelpers which do use the format attributes.