I have an web app and it has a controller without a model. I'm am trying to get some information (in this case dateFrom) and I want to be passed in a method (of type ActionResult). The method it has the following signature GetInfo(DateTime dateFrom). Any ideas?
The code from razor is something like this:
<form method="post" [email protected]("GetInfo", "GetInfo", new {dateFrom=getFromUser})>
<input name="dateFrom" type="date" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
You can access dateFrom like this,
public ActionResult GetInfo()
{
string sFromDate = Request.Form["dateFrom"];
return View();
}
You can further convert sFromDate to DateTime object.
set your code up like this instead:
In razor view:
@using (Html.BeginForm("GetInfo", "MyController"))
{
<input name="dateFrom" type="date" />
<input type="submit" />
}
In MyController controller:
public class MyController : Controller
{
public ActionResult GetInfo(string dateFrom)
{
var test = (DateTime)dateFrom;
}
}
dateFrom should automatically be populated with the date supplied by the user. If they do not supply a format that can be converted by .Net, it will be null.