How to read property data annotation value in .NET MVC

Question

I Just starting out w/ ASP.NET MVC 3 and I am trying to render out the following HTML for the string properties on a ViewModel on the create/edit view.

Answer 1

An much simpler solution is to implement a custom DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider like this:

internal class CustomModelMetadataProvider : DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider
{
    protected override ModelMetadata CreateMetadata(IEnumerable attributes, Type containerType, Func