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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 4297

MVC5 Show pretty Enum DisplayName in @Html.ActionLink

In my asp.net MVC5 projekt I'm making use of the [Display(Name="String")] annotation for Enums, which does work well as long as I'm using:

@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Category)

Now I'd like to use my pretty Enum names as link text in an 

@Html.ActionLink(item.Category.ToString(), "Category", new { id = item.Category })

It of course works like this, but I dont see the DisplayName value (with spaces). How can I achieve this?

This is what my enums look like (just for clarification):

public enum Category
{
    Book,
    Movie,
    [Display(Name = "TV Show")]
    TVShow,
    [Display(Name = "Video Game")]
    Videogame,
    Music,
    Software,
    Other
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 720

Answers (1)

free4ride
free4ride

Reputation: 1643

 public static class EnumExtension
{
    public static string GetDisplayName(this System.Enum en)
    {
        Type type = en.GetType();
        MemberInfo[] memInfo = type.GetMember(en.ToString());
        if (memInfo != null && memInfo.Length > 0)
        {
            object[] attrs = memInfo[0].GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DisplayAttribute), true);
            if (attrs != null && attrs.Length > 0)
            {
                return ((DisplayAttribute)attrs[0]).Name;
            }
        }
        return en.ToString();
    }
}

and

@Html.ActionLink(item.Category.GetDisplayName(), "Category", new { id = item.Category })

Upvotes: 2

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