I have this Enum (Notebook.cs): public enum Notebook : byte { [Display(Name = "Notebook HP")] NotebookHP, [Display(Name = "Notebook Dell")] NotebookDell } Also this property in my class (TI...

According to the documentation: The runtime doesn’t look up localized strings for non-validation attributes. In the code above, “Email” (from [Display(Name = "Email")]) will not be localized. ...

I've got a property in my model called Promotion that its type is a flag enum called UserPromotion. Members of my enum have display attributes set as follows: [Flags] public enum UserPromotion { N...

What is difference between DisplayName attribute and Display attribute in ASP.NET MVC?

I use a custom resource provider to get resource strings from a database. This works fine with ASP.NET where I can define the resource type as a string. The metadata attributes for model properties...

Wondering if this is possible or something with this effect. public class MyModel { public string Name { get; set; } [Display(Name = String.Format("This is [0]'s phone number", Name)] public s...

The result of [DisplayName("foo")] and [Display(Name="foo")] for @Html.LabelFor(x => x.MyProperty) is same. both generate <label for="MyProperty">foo</label>. what is the advantage o...