MVC 4 Data Annotations “Display” Attribute

Question

I am starting out with MVC 4 (Razor view engine). (I believe this may apply to MVC 3 and earlier as well.) I am wondering if there is any benefit to using the DisplayAttribute d

Answer 1

Also internationalization.

I fooled around with this some a while back. Did this in my model:

[Display(Name = "XXX", ResourceType = typeof(Labels))]

I had a separate class library for all the resources, so I had Labels.resx, Labels.culture.resx, etc.

In there I had key = XXX, value = "meaningful string in that culture."