In one of my projects I have a registered IDisplayMetadataProvider that examines the attributes on a model's properties and sets values in ModelMetadata.AdditionalValues as necessary. I find that if:

• the model property in question is a Nullable<T> AND
• the default value of the property is a value other than null

then the customizations to ModelMetadata are lost by the time the view is rendered.

A minimal project to reproduce the issue is here: https://github.com/emisaacson/MetadataProviderExample

I find with this change I get the expected result (AdditionalValues is populated when rendering the view): dev...emisaacson:vd-type-checking