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

@using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
@model string
@{
    var htmlAttributes = ViewData["htmlAttributes"] ?? new { @class = "checkbox-inline" };

    var attributes = HtmlHelper.AnonymousObjectToHtmlAttributes(htmlAttributes);

    if (!attributes.ContainsKey("maxlength"))
    {
        var metadata = ViewData.ModelMetadata;
        var prop = metadata.ContainerType.GetProperty(metadata.PropertyName);
        var attrs = prop.GetCustomAttributes(false);
        var maxLength = attrs.OfType().FirstOrDefault();
        if (maxLength != null)
        {
            attributes.Add("maxlength", maxLength.Length.ToString());
        }
        else
        {
            var stringLength = attrs.OfType().FirstOrDefault();

            if (stringLength != null)
            {
                attributes.Add("maxlength", stringLength.MaximumLength.ToString());
            }
        }
    }

}

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m, attributes)