jquery ui datepicker and mvc view model type datetime

Question

I am using jquery datepicker on my view model

Here is my view:

@Html.TextBoxFor(o => o.JobStartDate, new { id = \"dt1\", @class = \"input-block-le         


        

Answer 1

You will need to create a custom validator. You need to modify your property to take a string value instead like this

public string JobStartDate {get; set; }

You will then need to create your custom validator like this

public class CheckDateAttribute : ValidationAttribute
{
    protected override ValidationResult IsValid(object value, ValidationContext validationContext) {
        // Validate your Date here
    }
}

After this you will just decorate your property as such -

[CheckDate]
public string JobStartDate {get; set;}

Here is a good tutorial on custom validators