DatePicker in MVC bound to a Text field

[Ian]

I am converting a site wirtten in MVC to Kenod.

In a model, the date field, "StartDateSelected" is text and changing that would be difficult.

Is there a way to make the DatePickerFor bind to a text field instead of DateTime?

@(Html.Kendo().DatePickerFor(model => model.StartDateSelected)
            .Name("StartDateSelected")
            .Min("1/1/1999")
            .Value(Model.StartDateSelected)
      )

[Petur Subev]

Hello Ian,

Basically you can use the DatePicker helper instead of DatePickerFor and you can specify the Name of the widget to be the same as the name of the property.

Also if you cast the string to Date to set the initial value everything else should be working fine. 

Kind Regards,
Petur Subev
Telerik

[Shirish]

Hi Ian,

Please remove the .Name() method

 

@(Html.Kendo().DatePickerFor(model => model.StartDateSelected)
            .Min("1/1/1999")
            .Value(Model.StartDateSelected)
      )