Question

Is there a property that allows you to specify a user friendly name for a property in a class?

For example, say I have the following class:

public class Position
{
     public string EmployeeName { get; set; }
     public ContactInfo EmployeeContactInfo { get; set; }
}

I’d like to specify that the display name for the EmployeeName property is “Employee Name” and the display name for the EmployeeContactInfo property is “Employee Contact Information”.

It’s easy enough to write my own attribute class that allows me to do this:

[PropertyDisplayInfo(DisplayName = "Employee Name")]
public string EmployeeName { get; set; }

But is something like this already included in .NET?

Answer 1

Yes, there is System.ComponentModel.DisplayNameAttribute