Displaying DateTime picker instead of Date picker in ASP .NET MVC 5.1/HTML 5 specific

Your requirements are pretty picky… Specifying the attribute Datatype for a field, will generate an input having as type the attribute specified. That’s why when you add [DataType(DataType.Date)], the input generated will be a date picker, but if you add [DataType(DataType.DateTime)], the input will be of type datetime, thus why you don’t get any picker displayed. Why? Because a few years ago, the browsers supporting … Read more

The name ‘ViewBag’ does not exist in the current context – Visual Studio 2015

I had this issue despite having all the correct configuration. It turned out to be some bad files in the Component Cache, preventing the Razor views from recognising ViewBag, Model, and HtmlHelpers. Deleting these files solved the problem (good versions of these files were created next time I opened Visual Studio). The files are located … Read more

MVC Razor @foreach

What is the best practice on where the logic for the @foreach should be at? Nowhere, just get rid of it. You could use editor or display templates. So for example: could perfectly fine be replaced by a display template: and then you will define the corresponding display template (if you don’t like the default … Read more

What is the @Html.DisplayFor syntax for?

Html.DisplayFor() will render the DisplayTemplate that matches the property’s type. If it can’t find any, I suppose it invokes .ToString(). If you don’t know about display templates, they’re partial views that can be put in a DisplayTemplates folder inside the view folder associated to a controller. Example: If you create a view named String.cshtml inside … Read more

How to write a comment in a Razor view?

Note that in general, IDE’s like Visual Studio will markup a comment in the context of the current language, by selecting the text you wish to turn into a comment, and then using the Ctrl+K Ctrl+C shortcut, or if you are using Resharper / Intelli-J style shortcuts, then Ctrl+/. Server side Comments: Razor .cshtml Like so: .aspxFor those looking … Read more

Styles.Render in MVC4

It’s calling the files included in that particular bundle which is declared inside the BundleConfig class in the App_Start folder. In that particular case The call to @Styles.Render(“~/Content/css”) is calling “~/Content/site.css”.

What is the difference between “@Scripts.Render” and “

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