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

You can always create your own custom extension like this:

    public static MvcHtmlString ToolTipLabel (string resourceKey, string text, bool isRequired, string labelFor = "", string labelId = "",string className="")
    {
        string tooltip = string.Empty;

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(resourceKey))
        {
            var resources = GetAllResourceValues();

            if (resources.ContainsKey(resourceKey))
            {
                tooltip = resources[resourceKey].Value;
            }
        }

        sb.Append("* {0} 
", text);
        }
        else
        {
            sb.AppendFormat(">{0}
", text);
        }
        return MvcHtmlString.Create(sb.ToString());
    }

and can get it in view like this:

@HtmlExtension.ToolTipLabel(" "," ",true," "," "," ")