displayname attribute vs display attribute
What is difference between DisplayName
attribute and Display
attribute in ASP.NET MVC?
DisplayName
sets the DisplayName
in the model metadata. For example:
[DisplayName("foo")]
public string MyProperty { get; set; }
and if you use in your view the following:
@Html.LabelFor(x => x.MyProperty)
it would generate:
<label for="MyProperty">foo</label>
Display
does the same, but also allows you to set other metadata properties such as Name, Description, ...
Brad Wilson has a nice blog post covering those attributes.
They both give you the same results but the key difference I see is that you cannot specify a ResourceType
in DisplayName
attribute. For an example in MVC 2, you had to subclass the DisplayName
attribute to provide resource via localization. Display
attribute (new in MVC3 and .NET4) supports ResourceType
overload as an "out of the box" property.