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

In addition to Jakob Gade'a great answer:

If you need to Support a DescriptionAttribute instead of a DisplayAttribute, his great solution still works if we override the MetadataProvider:

public class ExtendedModelMetadataProvider : DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider
{
    protected override ModelMetadata CreateMetadata(IEnumerable attributes, Type containerType, Func