Difference between these 2 Display attributes?

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What is the difference between these 2 Display attributes?

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[DisplayName("Status")]
[Display(Name = "Status")]
public string StatusName;

These are inside a buddy metadata class using mvc5 and EF 6 in VS2012.

The first one will throw this message.

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

Possible duplicate:

DisplayName sets the DisplayName in the model metadata. For example:

[DisplayName("foo")]
public string MyProperty { get; set; }

and if you use in your view the following:

@Html.LabelFor(x => x.MyProperty)

it would generate:

<label for="MyProperty">foo</label>

Display does the same, but also allows you to set other metadata properties such as Name, Description

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