How to get metadata custom attributes?

Question

I have a class that defines data annotations at class level. The meta data class has custom attributes associated with it, along with the usual DisplayName,

Answer 1

Based on the other answers, i'm successed to get the DisplayName attribute from MetadataType class in this way:

var metadataType = type.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(MetadataTypeAttribute), true)
            .OfType().FirstOrDefault();

        var metaData = (metadataType != null)
                ? ModelMetadataProviders.Current.GetMetadataForType(null, metadataType.MetadataClassType)
                : ModelMetadataProviders.Current.GetMetadataForType(null, type);

        List propertyList = metaData.Properties.
            Select(x => x.DisplayName).ToList();