Passing a DateTime to controller via URL causing error in ASP .NET MVC 3 (culture)

Question

My application is setted with pt-BR culture (Date is dd-mm-yyyy) in web.config:

Answer 1

Got the same problem using an @Html.Action(..) in a view. For this situation it can be solved by putting the DateTime in a model:

public class MyModel
{
  public DateTime Value {get;set;}
}

and in the view:

@Html.Action("MyAction", new { myModel })

Note the new { } around the instance of MyModel, this way the DateTime is not converted to a string. This solution only works for Html.Action() and not for Html.ActionLink() or Url.Action() since MVC is doing a myModel.ToString() in the URL.