How to display default values ​​as empty rather than default?

Question

I have a view model with several properties that are not displayed as desired. One of the properties is the datetime type. The other is int. In my view of Create, a datetime appears with a default value of 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM , and int has a default value of 0 .

By default, empty fields are required. How to do it?

I already found [DefaultValue("")] and found that this does not affect this problem.

Thanks!

ASP.NET MVC 4 RC

Answer 1

Try declaring the properties of your ViewModel as nullable with ?

 public DateTime? DateValue { get; set; } public int? IntValue { get; set; }