@Html.DisplayNameFor for details model

Question

In my model I have an Entity

public class Carrier
{
public Guid CarrierId { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}

I also have a ViewModel

public class CarrierIndexViewModel
{
public IEnumerable<Carrier> Carriers { get; set; }
public PagingInfo PagingInfo { get; set; }
}

I have a strongly-typed (CarrierIndexViewModel) Index View, which is suppose to display a table of Carrier using PagingInfo.

I'm trying to use Html helper to display Carrier.Name in my table's header When I used IEnumerable as a model for this view I had @Html.DisplayFor(model => model.Name)

How can I get same result using my new CarrierIndexViewModel to display title for Carrier.Name?

Answer 1

I found there was no need for helper methods, extra code or looping through the collection. I just used the following:

@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.Carriers.FirstOrDefault().Name)

This still works even if FirstOrDefault() would return null because it's only looking for meta data, the Name property itself is not accessed.

Many thanks to @Kurian who inspired this answer.