How to get Display Name Attribute using PropertyDescriptor C# ASP.NET MVC 4

Question

I am using property descriptor to generically iterate over the properties and print their attribute names as table header. It works fine printing the property name, but not for the [Display(Name = "Test")]

Class:

public class Transaction
{
    [Display(Name = "Test")]
    public string DELETE { get; set; }
    public string PARTNO { get; set; } //Part Number

Markup:

    @foreach (System.ComponentModel.PropertyDescriptor descriptor in System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(Model[0]))
    {
       <th onclick="tableColumnSort(this)" class="tableSortHeaderBtnStyle">@descriptor.DisplayName;</th>
    }

Just prints the "DELETE" name rather than "Test". The descriptor has a Name, and DisplayName option and both are set to "DELETE"

What am I doing wrong?

Is there descriptor.Identifier.Text property on your object? — Ross Bush
– Ross Bush, Commented Mar 31, 2017 at 19:33

csharpbd · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-31 19:38:21Z

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You have to use [DisplayName("Test")] instead of [Display(Name = "Test")], please check this:

public class Transaction
{
    //[Display(Name = "Test")]
    [DisplayName("Test")]
    public string DELETE { get; set; }
    public string PARTNO { get; set; } //Part Number 
}

You can check this in DotNetFiddle.

answered Mar 31, 2017 at 19:38

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eaglei22 Over a year ago

Thank you that worked. The other one is part of DataAnnotations.

Cameron · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-11 15:26:16Z

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Use [DisplayName("Test")] in place of [Display(Name = "Test")]

edited Apr 11, 2017 at 15:26

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answered Mar 31, 2017 at 19:53

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