ASP.NET DateTime Picker

In the textbox add this:

textmode="Date"

It gives you nice looking Datepicker like this:

Other variations of this are:

textmode="DateTime"

It gives you this look:

textmode="DateTimeLocal"

<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" placeholder="mm/dd/yyyy" Textmode="Date" ReadOnly = "false"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="btnSave" runat="server" Text="Save" onclick="btnSave_Click" />

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Date, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", @type = "date" } })

this works well

If you would like to work with a textbox, be aware that setting the TextMode property to "Date" will not work on Internet Explorer 11, because it does not currently support the "Date", "DateTime", nor "Time" values.

This example illustrates how to implement it using a textbox, including validation of the dates (since the user could enter just numbers). It will work on Internet Explorer 11 as well other web browsers.

<asp:Content ID="Content"
         ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent"
         runat="server">

<link rel="stylesheet"
    href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" />
   <script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
   <script>
   $(function () {
   $("#
   <%= txtBoxDate.ClientID %>").datepicker();
   });
 </script>
 <asp:TextBox ID="txtBoxDate"
           runat="server"
           Width="135px"
           AutoPostBack="False"
           TabIndex="1"
           placeholder="mm/dd/yyyy"
           autocomplete="off"
           MaxLength="10"></asp:TextBox>
 <asp:CompareValidator ID="CompareValidator1"
                    runat="server"
                    ControlToValidate="txtBoxDate"
                    Operator="DataTypeCheck"
                    Type="Date">Date invalid, please check format. 
 </asp:CompareValidator>
 </asp:Content>