ASP.NET MVC - Show raw DisplayName of an item of the Model

Question

e.g. i have a class

public class Car
 {
     public string Name { get; set; }
     public string Brand { get; set; }
     public string Color { get; set; }
 }

and i have a view with a model as a list

@model IEnumerable<Car>

Now i want to display the raw displayName of a property of a listItem (model).

Example code:

@model IEnumerable<Car>

//(..)

<thead>
    <tr>
        <th>"[@Html.DisplayName(Model.First().Name))]"</th>
        <th>Brand</th>
        <th>Color</th>
    </tr>
</thead>

How can I do it?

UPDATE

I found the solution in creating a new helper class: click me

@PeterB with "Model.First()" I can access the property values. But i actually don't want to display the values but the displayname of a property. — sandy, Dec 05 '18 at 12:11
Possible duplicate of [Get \[DisplayName\] attribute of a property in strongly-typed way](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5474460/get-displayname-attribute-of-a-property-in-strongly-typed-way) — Peter B, Dec 05 '18 at 12:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '18 at 12:26

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Use LabelFor

<th>@Html.LabelFor(p => p.First().Name)<th>

Don't forget the display Attribute on Car Class

[DisplayName("Car Name")]
public string Name { get; set; }

answered Dec 05 '18 at 12:26

Ivan Valadares

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with LabelFor I'll get the displayname i want in a "label", but i want to have the raw value: `Name` and not `Name` – sandy Dec 05 '18 at 12:32
Ok, you can get it by reflection using System.Reflection; var name = ((DisplayAttribute)(typeof(Car).GetProperty("Name").GetCustomAttribute(typeof(DisplayAttribute)))).Name; – Ivan Valadares Dec 05 '18 at 12:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '18 at 13:16

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You can get

<th>DisplayName</th>

by using

@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.First().Name)

The solution you've used is quite old and doesn't use the built in helper.

answered Dec 05 '18 at 13:16

melkisadek

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ASP.NET MVC - Show raw DisplayName of an item of the Model

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