Question

In asp.net MVC 3 there is a new attribute that allows us to pass additional Meta Data to our views e.g.

    [Required]
    [AdditionalMetadata("Tooltip", "The title of the item")]
    public string Title { get; set; }

The question is, how do I actually make use of this information in my view? I thought that perhaps it would render out the data as html 5 data attributes but this is not the case.

A simple example would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

According to the documentation:

You can use the
AdditionalMetadataAttribute class to
populate the
ModelMetadata.AdditionalValues
dictionary for a model property.

…

This metadata is made available to any
display or editor template when a
product view model is rendered. It is
up to you as application developer to
interpret the metadata information.

So let’s make use of it in the view:

<h2>
    @ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(x => x.Title, ViewData).AdditionalValues["Tooltip"]
</h2>