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title: Controller methods and views in ASP.NET Core
author: rick-anderson
description: Learn how to work with controller methods, views, and DataAnnotations in ASP.NET Core.
manager: wpickett
ms.author: riande
ms.date: 03/07/2017
ms.prod: asp.net-core
ms.technology: aspnet
ms.topic: get-started-article
uid: tutorials/first-mvc-app/controller-methods-views
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# Controller methods and views in ASP.NET Core

By [Rick Anderson](https://twitter.com/RickAndMSFT)

We have a good start to the movie app, but the presentation isn't ideal. We don't want to see the time (12:00:00 AM in the image below) and **ReleaseDate** should be two words.

![Index view: Release Date is one word (no space) and every movie release date shows a time of 12 AM](working-with-sql/_static/m55.png)

Open the *Models/Movie.cs* file and add the highlighted lines shown below:

::: moniker range=">= aspnetcore-2.1"
[!code-csharp[](start-mvc/sample/MvcMovie21/Models/MovieDateFixed.cs?name=snippet_1&highlight=2,3,12-13,17)]
::: moniker-end
::: moniker range="<= aspnetcore-2.0"
[!code-csharp[](start-mvc/sample/MvcMovie/Models/MovieDateWithExtraUsings.cs?name=snippet_1&highlight=13-14)]
::: moniker-end

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			`Open the Models/Movie.cs file and add the highlighted lines shown below:`

Update intro to MVC to 2.1 (#6708) * WIP: Update intro to MVC to 2.1 * WIP: Update intro to MVC to 2.1 * work * SQL * controller methods * validation * details and delete * clean up * clean up 2018-05-31 14:01:13 +08:00			`::: moniker range=">= aspnetcore-2.1"`
			`[!code-csharp[](start-mvc/sample/MvcMovie21/Models/MovieDateFixed.cs?name=snippet_1&highlight=2,3,12-13,17)]`
			`::: moniker-end`
			`::: moniker range="<= aspnetcore-2.0"`
Drop [Main] from snippet references (#5547) 2018-02-25 00:08:11 +08:00			`[!code-csharp[](start-mvc/sample/MvcMovie/Models/MovieDateWithExtraUsings.cs?name=snippet_1&highlight=13-14)]`
Update intro to MVC to 2.1 (#6708) * WIP: Update intro to MVC to 2.1 * WIP: Update intro to MVC to 2.1 * work * SQL * controller methods * validation * details and delete * clean up * clean up 2018-05-31 14:01:13 +08:00			`::: moniker-end`
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