Question

How can i hide the attribute:

[Display(Name = "dspName")]

alternatively the variable name from my variable in the (razor) view?

My problem is that I have defined a custom template for booleans that views the boolean like:

varname/displayName: 'box'

If I create the view with:

@Html.EditorForModel(Model)

the Result is:

varname/displayName
varname/displayName: 'box'

Result in Browser:

edit: my BooleanTemplate

@model System.Boolean?

@{
    string name = string.Empty;
    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ViewData.ModelMetadata.DisplayName))
    {
        name =ViewData.ModelMetadata.DisplayName;
    }
    else
    {
        name = ViewData.ModelMetadata.PropertyName;
    }
}
@name: 
@Html.CheckBox("", Model.HasValue ? Model : Model.Value)

Answer 1

The additional label you are seeing is baked into the default editor template for the Object class. So you have two possibilities:

1. Use @Html.EditorFor(x => x.SomeBoolProperty) and so on for each property instead of @Html.EditorForModel()

2. Modify the default editor template of the object class (EditorTemplates/Object.cshtml) to remove the label (notice the part I have put in comments):

   @if (ViewData.TemplateInfo.TemplateDepth > 1) 
   { 
       @ViewData.ModelMetadata.SimpleDisplayText
   }
   else 
   {
       foreach (var prop in ViewData.ModelMetadata.Properties.Where(pm => pm.ShowForEdit && !ViewData.TemplateInfo.Visited(pm))) 
       {
           if (prop.HideSurroundingHtml) 
           {
               @Html.Editor(prop.PropertyName)
           }
           else 
           {
               @*if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Html.Label(prop.PropertyName).ToHtmlString())) 
               {
                   <div class="editor-label">@Html.Label(prop.PropertyName)</div>
               }*@
               <div class="editor-field">
                   @Html.Editor(prop.PropertyName)
                   @Html.ValidationMessage(prop.PropertyName, "*")
               </div>
           }
       }
   }