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Asked: 2026-05-14T02:21:01+00:00

If I have a table Orders with fields CustomerID , OrderID and OrderDate ,

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If I have a table Orders with fields CustomerID, OrderID and OrderDate, then the “Linq-to-SQL classes” generated class will be called Orders, with members called CustomerID, OrderID and OrderDate. So far so good.

However, if I then do Html.LabelFor(m => m.OrderDate) then the generated text will be “OrderDate” instead of “Order Date”.

I tried using Order_Date as the field name, but that didn’t work. Is there any way to get it to infer a better display name?

[I know that I can use data annotations to specify the display name explicitly, but I really don’t want to do that for all my classes/members – I just want it to work by convention.]

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  1. Editorial Team

    This method takes advantage of existing MVC 2 architecture to place conventions over the entire *For rendering methods instead of one off HTML helpers and without having to re-label everything with spaced property names.

    How to "DRY up" C# attributes in Models and ViewModels?

    Essentially what your doing is overriding the default ConventionModelMetadataProvider behavior of MVC 2 and providing hooks for you to insert your own opinionated conventions.

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