Concatenating special character in razor with lambda exp

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Hi ,

I wanted to add an special character : in my razor view which is currently binded via lambda expression

@Html.DisplayFor(x => x.StoreProfileAssociation.RegionalManager.Title)

What I have tried:

I tried in this way but throws an exception

@Html.DisplayFor(string.Format("{0}{1}", x => x.StoreProfileAssociation.RegionalManager.Title,":")

Posted 20-Apr-16 1:11am

sahmed3

Updated 20-Apr-16 4:24am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Apr-16 7:15am

Are some characters "special"? I never heard of that. Which one? Why may it possibly create such complications?
—SA

sahmed3 20-Apr-16 7:38am

Hi,
Basically i wanted to show colon(:) after my Title.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Apr-16 10:20am

How special! Anyway, just write the colon. :-)
—SA

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Karthik_Mahalingam · Answer 1 · 2016-04-20T02:30:00

Create a Folder named DisplayTemplates under Views-> Shared -> DisplayTemplates Folder

Views

Shared

DisplayTemplates

Create a view as MyFormat.cshtml inside DisplayTemplates Folder
write the following code in the cshtml file for custom formatting

C#

@model string 
@string.Format("{0}:",Model)

and then your razor as

C#

@Html.DisplayFor(model => model.PropertyName,"MyFormat" )

referred from Display For Templates[^]

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2016-04-20T04:24:00

Solution 2

Your problem is: first parameter of your call to string.Format is the delegate instance, which makes no sense at all. You need some value instead, not the method to find value; and then the formatted string will include anything returned by System.Object.ToString() called on that object.

—SA

Posted 20-Apr-16 4:24am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov