Implement a Caption Property in a Model Entity?

Question

Recently we are converting Datatable to List of Models.. I had a class called Person ( personid ,PersonChildId} and I implemented my class as

public class Person 
{
    public Int64 PerosnId{ get; set; }
    public Int64 PersonChildID{ get; set; }
}

I sucessfully converted my Datatable to List<Person> by using simple for loop. But now the problem is as we know Datacolumn has a property called Caption. but unfortunately models don't have.
So how do we need implement a Caption property for the Model for these kind of scenarios.

Answer 1

Use an attribute like the DisplayName:

public class Person 
{
    [DisplayName("Person ID:"]
    public Int64 PerosnId{ get; set; }

    [DisplayName("Person Child ID:"]
    public Int64 PersonChildID{ get; set; }
}

You can get the value of the attribute with:

var caption = property.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DisplayNameAttribute), true)
      .Cast<DisplayNameAttribute>.Single().DisplayName;