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John S
John S

Reputation: 8341

Extracting data attribute display name from c# class?

I am able to get a simple text list of all the property names in a specified class using the following code.

  PropertyInfo[] propertyInfos;
  propertyInfos = typeof(MyClass).GetProperties();
  foreach (var item in propertyInfos)
     {
     yield return item.Name.ToString();
     }

But I have not been able to figure out how to get the Display Name for each field. The display name being designated with the data attribute:

 [Display(Name = "First Name")]
 public string FirstName { get; set; }

Is there a way using reflection? Or some other way to do it programatically?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 443

Answers (1)

Samvel Petrosov
Samvel Petrosov

Reputation: 7706

You can get CustomAttribute by type in this way:

DisplayAttribute attribute = (DisplayAttribute)item.GetCustomAttribute(typeof(DisplayAttribute));

Now you can get any value of DisplayAttribute fields just using for example 

attributes.Name

Upvotes: 4

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