Hi,
today I got confused when doing a couple of <%=Html.LabelFor(m=>m.MyProperty)%> in ASP.NET MVC 2 and using the [DisplayName("Show this instead of MyProperty")] attribute from System.ComponentModel.

As it turned out, when I put the attribute on an overridden property, LabelFor didn't seem to notice it.
However, the [Required] attribute works fine on the overridden property, and the generated errormessage actually uses the DisplayNameAttribute.

This is some trivial examplecode, the more realistic scenario is that I have a databasemodel separate from the viewmodel, but for convenience, I'd like to inherit from the databasemodel, add View-only properties and decorating the viewmodel with the attributes for the UI.

public class POCOWithoutDataAnnotations
{
    public virtual string PleaseOverrideMe { get; set; }        
} 
public class EditModel : POCOWithoutDataAnnotations
{
    [Required]
    [DisplayName("This should be as label for please override me!")]
    public override string PleaseOverrideMe 
    {
        get { return base.PleaseOverrideMe; }
        set { base.PleaseOverrideMe = value; }
    }

    [Required]
    [DisplayName("This property exists only in EditModel")]
    public string NonOverriddenProp { get; set; }
}

The strongly typed ViewPage<EditModel> contains:

        <div class="editor-label">
            <%= Html.LabelFor(model => model.PleaseOverrideMe) %>
        </div>
        <div class="editor-field">
            <%= Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.PleaseOverrideMe) %>
            <%= Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.PleaseOverrideMe) %>
        </div>

        <div class="editor-label">
            <%= Html.LabelFor(model => model.NonOverriddenProp) %>
        </div>
        <div class="editor-field">
            <%= Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.NonOverriddenProp) %>
            <%= Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.NonOverriddenProp) %>
        </div>

The labels are then displayed as "PleaseOverrideMe" (not using the DisplayNameAttribute) and "This property exists only in EditModel" (using the DisplayNameAttribute) when viewing the page.
If I post with empty values, triggering the validation with this ActionMethod:

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Edit(EditModel model)
    {
        if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            return View(model);
        return View("Thanks");
    }

the <%= Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.PleaseOverrideMe) %> actually uses [DisplayName("This should be as label for please override me!")] attribute, and produces the default errortext "The This should be as label for please override me! field is required."

Would some friendly soul shed some light on this?