How to access attributes of ViewModel inside Views

Question

I have below ViewModel:

public class RegisterViewModel
{
    [Display(Name = "First Name")]
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
}

In my view, I'm using DevExtreme components and syntaxes.

when creating the page using following code:

<div class="form-group">
    @Html.DevExtreme().TextBoxFor(m => m.FirstName).Placeholder("First Name")
</div>

I don't want to hard-code "First Name" for Placeholder and like to use value of Display attribute instead.

I reviewed couple of answers in SO but could not figure out how to do that.

some of the posts are talking about ModelMetadata but I can't figure out how to do that.

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I post the answer here to probably help others. Thanks to @Stephen Muecke

<div class="form-group">
    @Html.DevExtreme().TextBoxFor(m => m.FirstName)
        .Placeholder(Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.FirstName).ToString())
</div>