Handling dates with Asp.Net MVC and KnockoutJS

Question

I recently started working with KnockoutJs and quickly realized using the default Json(myModelWithADate) resulted in the default json encoding of \\/Date(

Answer 1

I loved Andres Toro's answer except that in my case, input fields are expecting formatted strings. So I am using JQuery to format my dates according to my favorite format provided by my helper @Html.ConvertDateFormat() Hope this helps someone day.

var mapping = {
    'ActualDateTime': {
        update: function (options) {
            var d = /\/Date\((\d*)\)\//.exec(options.data);
            return (d) ? $.datepicker.formatDate('@Html.ConvertDateFormat()', new Date(+d[1])) : value;
            //return "5/10/2017";
        }
    }
};
var paymentModel = ko.mapping.fromJS(modelJSON, mapping);