Change the display name of EntitySet fields in Dynamic Data

Question

User318430210 posted

Is it possible to change the display name of EntitySet fields?

Answer 1

User-330204900 posted

Yes it is possible, by default it is the tables display name of the child table but you can customise it using the display Attribute.

Answer 2

User318430210 posted

Thanks sjnaughton. I used the following code but it doesn't work.

[DisplayName("Manager")]

public EntitySet<Personnel> Personnel {get; set;}

Answer 3

User3866881 posted

Hello karadous：）

I'm not sure where you've added the attribute……So please try this（suppose you have an entity called "Company"，so——）You should do to create a partial class with another attribute called "MetadataType" and then do this below：

namespace DynamicData
{
    [MetadataType(typeof(CompaniesMetaData))]
    public partial class Companies
    {
        
    }
    public class CompaniesMetaData
    {
        [DisplayName("Your Title Here")]
        public object Title { get; set; }
    }
}

Answer 4

User-330204900 posted

Actually the prefered method now is:

namespace DynamicData 
{ 
    [MetadataType(typeof(CompaniesMetaData))] 
    public partial class Companies 
    { 
         
    } 
    public class CompaniesMetaData 
    { 
        [Display(Name="Your Title Here")] 
        public object Title { get; set; } 
    } 
}

DisplayName is depreciated I think.

Answer 5

User3866881 posted

sjnaughton

Thanks！You are so kind to remind me of that……So you mean DisplayName is expired？