How can I echo the label of a salesforce custom object on a visualforce page?

Question

I want to access the metadata of a custom object and display the name of the custom object. This has been changed from the original and I want my page to always display the name without having to change any code or markup.

A label can be accessed as {!$Label.MyLabel}.

Is there something akin to {!$MyCustomObject.Label}?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Yes you can do this via the Global Variable $ObjectType i.e.

{!$ObjectType.CustomObjectName__c.Label}

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