Recently I have started working on ASP.NET MVC. There I have a trouble with MVC DropDownList using enum and its localization.

After googling I found some solutions and here is the final solution that worked for me.

        public static string GetEnumDescription<T>(T value, bool getLocalized = true)

        {

            FieldInfo fi = value.GetType().GetField(value.ToString());

            DescriptionAttribute[] attributes =

                (DescriptionAttribute[])fi.GetCustomAttributes(

                typeof(DescriptionAttribute),

                false);

            if (attributes != null &&

                attributes.Length > 0)

            {

                if (getLocalized)

                {

                    string localstring = Resources.Resources.ResourceManager.GetString(attributes[0].Description);

                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(localstring))

                        return localstring;

                }

                return attributes[0].Description;

            }

            else

                return value.ToString();

        }

        public static MvcHtmlString EnumDropDownList<T>(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string name, T enu, int selectedValue)

        {

            string[] names = Enum.GetNames(typeof(T));

            Array values = Enum.GetValues(typeof(T));

            IList<SelectListItem> items = new List<SelectListItem>();

            int i = 0;

            foreach (T collateralTypeSetting in Enum.GetValues(typeof(T)))

            {

                string Text = GetEnumDescription(collateralTypeSetting);

                int val = (int)values.GetValue(i);

                SelectListItem it = new SelectListItem();

                it.Text = Text;

                it.Value = val.ToString();

                if (selectedValue == val)

                    it.Selected = true;

                items.Add(it);

                i++;

            }

            items[1].Selected = true;

            return htmlHelper.DropDownList(

             name,

             items

             );

        }