How to display the "Display(Name="My Name") data annotation with a form field?

[Jstemper]

I use data annotations heavily in my view models. I understand that if I let the Telerik form tag I can get the labels to generate and display from my data annotations but I am not auto generating my forms.   How do I make use of the Data Annotations with hand crafted forms?

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello,

The solution is to use a bit of reflection to extract the model metadata that you want to use, you can find similar examples here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7027613/how-to-retrieve-data-annotations-from-code-programmatically - you can easily make that into an extension method to call from the UI rendering.

 

Regards,
Marin Bratanov
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