Get Column title in View

Question

MVC5 did a great job on automatically creating the View page (Razor). It currently displays my list of Students for example with table heading like this:

<th>
    @*@Html.ActionLink("", "Index", new { sortOrder = ViewBag.NameSortParm })*@
    @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.LastName)
</th>

Now. DisplayNameFor take a Lambda Expression as its parameter. However, I want the Column title, which is "Last Name", to pass into another HtmlHelper's parameter - ActionLink's.
Following articles seem to be similar but I read it, unfortunately it didn't solve my problem:

• How to set a name to the TITLE of a newly opened tab from the @Html.ActionLink cshtml page
• How to get the column titles from the Display(Name=) DataAnnotation for a strongly typed list scaffold view at runtime?

Answer 1

Why don't you use Resources for this:

1. Add Resource LastNameTitle

2. Your model will look like:

   public class Model
   {
   
       [Display(Name = "LastNameTitle ", ResourceType = typeof(Resources.Resources))]
       public string LastName{ get; set; }
   }
   

3. Your View:

   <th>
       @Html.ActionLink(Resources.Resources.LastNameTitle , "Index", new { sortOrder = ViewBag.NameSortParm })
       @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.LastName)
   </th>