Enum localization

Question

How do you localize enums for a ListBoxFor where multiple options are possible?

For example an enum that contains roles:

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Answer 1

A version of @eluxen's answer working for certain portable (PCL) libraries (specifically for Profile47) where original solution won't work. Two problems were addressed: DescriptionAttribute is not available in portable libraries, and problem reported by @Jitendra Pancholi with "Could not find any resources" error is solved

public class LocalizedDescriptionAttribute : Attribute
{
    private readonly string _resourceKey;
    private readonly Type _resourceType;
    public LocalizedDescriptionAttribute(string resourceKey, Type resourceType)
    {
        _resourceType = resourceType;
        _resourceKey = resourceKey;
    }

    public string Description
    {
        get
        {
            string displayName = String.Empty;
            ResourceManager resMan = _resourceType.GetProperty(
                @"ResourceManager", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(null, null) as ResourceManager;
            CultureInfo culture = _resourceType.GetProperty(
                    @"Culture", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(null, null) as CultureInfo;

            if (resMan != null)
            {
                displayName = resMan.GetString(_resourceKey, culture);
            }

            var ret = string.IsNullOrEmpty(displayName) ? string.Format("[[{0}]]", _resourceKey) : displayName;
            return ret;
        }
    }
}

For usage see the original answer. And if you are not encountering any problems, I would still use the original answer because it does not contain workarounds through reflection