How to get the Display Name Attribute of an Enum m

Question

I've got a property in my model called "Promotion" that its type is a flag enum called "UserPromotion". Members of my enum have display attributes set as follows:

[Flags]
public enum UserPromotion
{
    None = 0x0,

    [Display(Name = "Send Job Offers By Mail")]
    SendJobOffersByMail = 0x1,

    [Display(Name = "Send Job Offers By Sms")]
    SendJobOffersBySms = 0x2,

    [Display(Name = "Send Other Stuff By Sms")]
    SendPromotionalBySms = 0x4,

    [Display(Name = "Send Other Stuff By Mail")]
    SendPromotionalByMail = 0x8
}

Now I want to be able to create say a ul in my view to show the selected values of my "Promotion" property. This is what I have done so far but the problem is that how can I get the display names here?

<ul>
    @foreach (int aPromotion in @Enum.GetValues(typeof(UserPromotion)))
    {
        var currentPromotion = (int)Model.JobSeeker.Promotion;
        if ((currentPromotion & aPromotion) == aPromotion)
        {
        <li>Here I don't know how to get the display attribute of "currentPromotion".</li>
        }
    }
</ul>

Answer 1

Based on previous answers I've created this comfortable helper to support all DisplayAttribute properties in a readable way:

public static class EnumExtensions
    {
        public static DisplayAttributeValues GetDisplayAttributeValues(this Enum enumValue)
        {
            var displayAttribute = enumValue.GetType().GetMember(enumValue.ToString()).First().GetCustomAttribute<DisplayAttribute>();

            return new DisplayAttributeValues(enumValue, displayAttribute);
        }

        public sealed class DisplayAttributeValues
        {
            private readonly Enum enumValue;
            private readonly DisplayAttribute displayAttribute;

            public DisplayAttributeValues(Enum enumValue, DisplayAttribute displayAttribute)
            {
                this.enumValue = enumValue;
                this.displayAttribute = displayAttribute;
            }

            public bool? AutoGenerateField => this.displayAttribute?.GetAutoGenerateField();
            public bool? AutoGenerateFilter => this.displayAttribute?.GetAutoGenerateFilter();
            public int? Order => this.displayAttribute?.GetOrder();
            public string Description => this.displayAttribute != null ? this.displayAttribute.GetDescription() : string.Empty;
            public string GroupName => this.displayAttribute != null ? this.displayAttribute.GetGroupName() : string.Empty;
            public string Name => this.displayAttribute != null ? this.displayAttribute.GetName() : this.enumValue.ToString();
            public string Prompt => this.displayAttribute != null ? this.displayAttribute.GetPrompt() : string.Empty;
            public string ShortName => this.displayAttribute != null ? this.displayAttribute.GetShortName() : this.enumValue.ToString();
        }
    }

Answer 2

Building on Aydin's great answer, here's an extension method that doesn't require any type parameters.

using System;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;

public static class EnumExtensions
{
    public static string GetDisplayName(this Enum enumValue)
    {
        return enumValue.GetType()
                        .GetMember(enumValue.ToString())
                        .First()
                        .GetCustomAttribute<DisplayAttribute>()
                        .GetName();
    }
}

NOTE: GetName() should be used instead of the Name property. This ensures that the localized string will be returned if using the ResourceType attribute property.

Example

To use it, just reference the enum value in your view.

@{
    UserPromotion promo = UserPromotion.SendJobOffersByMail;
}

Promotion: @promo.GetDisplayName()

Output

Promotion: Send Job Offers By Mail

Answer 3

I want to contribute with culture-dependent GetDisplayName enum extension. Hope this will be usefull for anyone googling this answer like me previously:

"standart" way as Aydin Adn and Todd mentioned:

    public static string GetDisplayName(this Enum enumValue)
    {
        return enumValue
            .GetType()
            .GetMember(enumValue.ToString())
            .First()
            .GetCustomAttribute<DisplayAttribute>()
            .GetName();
    }

"Culture-dependent" way:

    public static string GetDisplayName(this Enum enumValue, CultureInfo ci)
    {
        var displayAttr = enumValue
            .GetType()
            .GetMember(enumValue.ToString())
            .First()
            .GetCustomAttribute<DisplayAttribute>();

        var resMan = displayAttr.ResourceType?.GetProperty(@"ResourceManager", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(null, null) as ResourceManager;

        return resMan?.GetString(displayAttr.Name, ci) ?? displayAttr.GetName();
    }

Answer 4

Based on Aydin's answer I would suggest a less "duplicatious" implementation (because we could easily get the Type from the Enum value itself, instead of providing it as a parameter

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Answer 5

With Core 2.1,

public static string GetDisplayName(Enum enumValue)
{
  return enumValue.GetType()?
 .GetMember(enumValue.ToString())?[0]?
 .GetCustomAttribute<DisplayAttribute>()?
 .Name;
}

Answer 6

<ul>
    @foreach (int aPromotion in @Enum.GetValues(typeof(UserPromotion)))
    {
        var currentPromotion = (int)Model.JobSeeker.Promotion;
        if ((currentPromotion & aPromotion) == aPromotion)
        {
        <li>@Html.DisplayFor(e => currentPromotion)</li>
        }
    }
</ul>