I have an autogenerated class from importing a web service containing something like this (abbreviated):
[System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute()]
public System.DateTime StartDate
{
get
{
return this.StartDateField;
}
set { /* implementation prop changed */ }
}
And I want to add an MVC format attribute to this member. So in another file containing the same partial class
definition, I would like to do something like the following (which is illegal):
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:dd-MM-yyyy}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public DateTime StartDate;
A partial method is of no use here because partial methods must be private, have void return type, must be a method etc etc.
How can I decorate this member?
You could use
MetadataType
attribute like this: