Get ASP.NET MVC model field's description from annotation

Question

Say, I have an MVC model

public class MyModel
{
    [Display(Name = "Sophistically-named field", Description = "blah-blah")]
    public int SophisticallyNamedField {get;set;}
}

Is there any way I can get field's name and description from annotation? I need to get it in C# code, not in Razor.

Duplication: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7027613/how-to-retrieve-data-annotations-from-code-programmatically. — FatAlbert, Mar 28 '14 at 11:52
@FatAlbert, Andrei I see. Wasn't able to google them up, though. Voted to close the question. Don't want to delete it, will prove useful in finding info. — Arnthor, Mar 28 '14 at 12:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Use Reflection to access the values of a given Attribute. You might want to check out the GetCustomAttribute method or have a look at one of the countless samples on this site.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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