Get DisplayName Attribute without using LabelFor Helper in asp.net MVC

<p>    <%= Html.Encode(        ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression<YourViewModel, string>(            x => x.SomeProperty, ViewData).DisplayName    ) %><p>

Obviously in order to avoid the spaghetti code it is always a good idea to write a helper:

public static class HtmlExtensions{    public static MvcHtmlString GetDisplayName<TModel, TProperty>(        this HtmlHelper<TModel> htmlHelper,         Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression    )    {        var metaData = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression<TModel, TProperty>(expression, htmlHelper.ViewData);        string value = metaData.DisplayName ?? (metaData.PropertyName ?? ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression));        return MvcHtmlString.Create(value);    }}

And then:

<p>    <%: Html.GetDisplayName(x => x.SomeProperty) %></p>

You should try new existing function :

<% Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.YourProperty) %>

In my opinion you should use a string as a result type because otherwise you skip the encoding mechanism. Another point is that you need the DisplayName in some cases as a string (i.e. populate the columns in a WebGrid class).