How can I access data attributes for a class in my MVC view

Question

I have the following class:

namespace Storage.Models
{
    public class AdminDetail
    {
        public string PartitionKey { get; set; }
        public string RowKey { get; set; }
        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string Status { get; set; }
        public string Type { get; set; }
        public string Level { get; set; }
        [DisplayName("Display Order")]
        public string Order { get; set; }
        public int Row { get; set; }
    }

I had some advice and I set up the following as the model in my view:

@model IEnumerable<AdminDetail>

Is it possible for me to somehow reference attributes of my AdminDetail class such as [DisplayName("Display Order")]. What I would like to do is something like this to show column labels for the first row of my table grid.

<div>@Html.LabelFor(model => Model.Order)</div>

But I am not sure how to do this as my model is of a collection and not a single instance.

Here's the code I use to generate data for the view:

        IEnumerable<AdminDetail> details = null;
        IList<AdminDetail> detailsList = null;
        details = from t in _table
                      select new AdminDetail
                      {
                          PartitionKey = t.PartitionKey,
                          RowKey = t.RowKey,
                          Title = t.Title,
                          Status = t.Status,
                          Type = t.Type,
                          Level = t.Level,
                          Order = t.Order
                      };
            #endregion
            detailsList = details
                .OrderBy(item => item.Order)
                .ThenBy(item => item.Title)
                .Select((t, index) => new AdminDetail() { 
                    PartitionKey = t.PartitionKey, 
                    RowKey = t.RowKey, 
                    Title = t.Title, 
                    Status = t.Status, 
                    Type = t.Type, 
                    Level = t.Level, 
                    Order = t.Order, 
                    Row = index + 1 })
                 .ToList();

 return detailsList;

Answer 1

@model IEnumerable<AdminDetail>

@foreach (var detail in Model)
{
    <div>@Html.LabelFor(x => detail.Order)</div>
}

or if you are using an editor template which is what I would recommend:

@model IEnumerable<AdminDetail>
@Html.EditorForModel()

and then inside the display template (~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/AdminDetail.cshtml):

@model AdminDetail
<div>@Html.LabelFor(model => model.Order)</div>

---

UPDATE:

You could use IList<AdminDetail> as your view model type which will give you index access to elements and you could fetch the metadata like this:

@model IList<AdminDetail>

<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>@Html.LabelFor(x => x[0].Order)</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        @Html.DisplayForModel()
    </tbody>
</table>

and inside the display template (~/Views/Shared/DisplayTemplates/AdminDetail.cshtml):

@model AdminDetail
<tr>
    <td>@Html.DisplayFor(x => x.Order)</td>
</tr>

Answer 2

Since you are trying to make a table, and just need the label one time, just instantiate a new item of the class you want and call the LabelFor methods on it.

@{ var labelModel = new AdminDetail; }
@Html.LabelFor(model => labelModel.Order);

It's a bit of a hacky way to do it, but it will prevent you from writing your own reflection and it won't tie the label in the header to a specific input on the page.