How to get the Display Name Attribute of an Enum member via MVC razor code?

Question

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:

Answer 1

I have two solutions for this Question.

1. The first solution is on getting display names from enum.

public enum CourseLocationTypes
{
    [Display(Name = "On Campus")]
    OnCampus,
    [Display(Name = "Online")]
    Online,
    [Display(Name = "Both")]
    Both
}

public static string DisplayName(this Enum value)
{
    Type enumType = value.GetType();
    string enumValue = Enum.GetName(enumType, value);
    MemberInfo member = enumType.GetMember(enumValue)[0];

    object[] attrs = member.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DisplayAttribute), false);
    string outString = ((DisplayAttribute)attrs[0]).Name;

    if (((DisplayAttribute)attrs[0]).ResourceType != null)
    {
        outString = ((DisplayAttribute)attrs[0]).GetName();
    }

    return outString;
}

@Model.CourseLocationType.DisplayName()

2. The second Solution is on getting display name from enum name but that will be enum split in developer language it's called patch.

public static string SplitOnCapitals(this string text)
{
        var r = new Regex(@"
            (?<=[A-Z])(?=[A-Z][a-z]) |
             (?<=[^A-Z])(?=[A-Z]) |
             (?<=[A-Za-z])(?=[^A-Za-z])", RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace);

        return r.Replace(text, " ");
}

 

     @foreach (var item in Enum.GetNames(typeof(CourseLocationType)))
     {
         
             @Html.RadioButtonFor(x => x.CourseLocationType, item, new { type = "radio", @class = "iCheckBox control-label" })  @item.SplitOnCapitals()
         
     }
     @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => x.CourseLocationType)