Html.LabelFor Specified Text [ASP.NET MVC 2]

Question

Anyone got any idea on how to specify text when using Html.LabelFor(c=>c.MyField). It's just MyField might not be an appropriate name to display on screen, you may want "The Super Fantastic Field" instead, but there doesn't appear to be any overloads.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I haven't checked out CP1 yet but I read over Scott's release of it and I seem to recall that the code was generated by T4. I suppose you could always mod that, but I would suspect that they will provide overloads in CP2.

Edit: The source is always available and thus you could just mod the method, change the T4 generator, and you'll be good to go. Also put in a ticket or request (somehow) for that mod so it gets worked into the next version.

Answer 2

I haven't downloaded v2 yet, so I can't test, but I believe it works like DynamicData, in which case you'd do something like this on your model:

[Display(Name = "The Super Fantastic Field")]
public string MyField {get;set;}

Answer 3

You use the DisplayName attribute (System.ComponentModel.DisplayNameAttribute):

[DisplayName("My Field")]
public string MyField { get; set; }