Get DisplayName Attribute without using LabelFor Helper in asp.net MVC

Question

What is the best way to retrieve the display name attribute for an item in your model? I see a lot of people using the LabelFor helper for everything, but a label isn\'t app

Answer 1

In my opinion you should use a string as a result type because otherwise you skip the encoding mechanism. Another point is that you need the DisplayName in some cases as a string (i.e. populate the columns in a WebGrid class).