Access displayName attribute from the model in MVC View

Question

If my model have

[DisplayName(\"First Name\")]
public string firstName { get; set; }

Then I can print it in the View with LabelFor

Answer 1

You can access the value of the attribute Display(Name="...") in 4 steps:

var type = typeof(YourNamespace.Models.YourModelName);
var memInfo = type.GetMember("firstName"); // your member
var attributes = memInfo[0].GetCustomAttributes(typeof(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.DisplayAttribute), false);
var displayname = ((System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.DisplayAttribute)attributes[0]).Name;

Then displayname will have the value First Name in your context.