Format Date to only Month and Year - "MMM-yyyy"

Question

I am working on MVC 4.0./C#/Razor view. In model I have a date

[Display(Name = "For Period")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:dd-MMM-yyyy}")] 
public System.DateTime ForPeriod { get; set; }

and in View I am getting date using

@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.ForPeriod)

and in result I am getting date in "12-May-2015" format. I want to skip the day from this date and in result I want "May-2015".

My question is what should I used in View to get this "MMM-yyyy" format?

Answer 1

[Display(Name = "For Period")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MMM-yyyy}")] 
public System.DateTime ForPeriod { get; set; }

More information on formatting dates in C# can be found on MSDN here.

There is an additional option of using a custom editor template which you can read this article on stack overflow for more details - ASP.NET MVC 4 Editor Template for basic types

Answer 2

You can format date in View file by following way

<span>@Convert.ToDateTime(item.EffectiveDate).ToString("MMM-yyyy")</span>

For can also format date from model

[Display(Name = "For Period")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:MMM-yyyy}")] 
public System.DateTime ForPeriod { get; set; }