How do I display the DisplayAttribute.Description attribute value?

Question

I have a model class, with a property like this:

[Display(Name = \"Phone\", Description=\"Hello World!\")]
public string Phone1 { get; set; }

Answer 1

Using the technique from this article about how to Display visual hints for the fields in your form, you can access the value via the following:

@Html.TextBoxFor( 
        model => model.Email , 
        new { title = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression( 
            model => model.Email , ViewData ).Description } )