Question

Afternoon people!

I’m trying to implement a list of counties on my Compact Framework (Mobile) application.

I can do this easily in the full .Net framework with CultureInfo.GetCultures(..etc). However, the CF seems to be missing this feature?

Is there any way I can return a list of countries (and regions if possible) that I can populate into a ComboBox?

The OS has a list of countries, so there must be a way to do it?

I look forward to hearing back!

Answer 1

How about this?

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Globalization; using System.Runtime.InteropServices;  namespace OpenNETCF.Globalization {     public class CultureInfoHelper     {         private delegate int EnumLocalesHandler(string lpLocaleString);          private static EnumLocalesHandler m_localesDelegate;          private static List<CultureInfo> m_cultures;          private static int EnumLocalesProc(string locale)         {             try             {                 m_cultures.Add(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo(                     int.Parse(locale, NumberStyles.HexNumber)));             }             catch             {                 // failed for this locale - ignore and continue             }              return 1;         }          public static CultureInfo[] GetCultures()         {             if (m_localesDelegate == null)             {                 m_cultures = new List<CultureInfo>();                 m_localesDelegate = new EnumLocalesHandler(EnumLocalesProc);                 IntPtr fnPtr = Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(                     m_localesDelegate);                 int success = EnumSystemLocales(fnPtr, LCID_INSTALLED);             }              return m_cultures.ToArray();         }          private const int LCID_INSTALLED = 0x01;         private const int LCID_SUPPORTED = 0x02;          [DllImport('coredll', SetLastError = true)]         private static extern int EnumSystemLocales(             IntPtr lpLocaleEnumProc, uint dwFlags);     } } 

Usage looks like this:

using OpenNETCF.Globalization; .... static void Main() {     foreach (CultureInfo ci in CultureInfoHelper.GetCultures())     {                     Debug.WriteLine(string.Format('0x{0:x2}({1}) : {2}', ci.LCID, ci.Name, ci.EnglishName));     } } 

And output looks like this:

0x402(bg-BG) : Bulgarian (Bulgaria) 0x403(ca-ES) : Catalan (Catalan) 0x405(cs-CZ) : Czech (Czech Republic) 0x406(da-DK) : Danish (Denmark) 0x407(de-DE) : German (Germany) 0x408(el-GR) : Greek (Greece) 0x409(en-US) : English (United States) ... 0x400a(es-BO) : Spanish (Bolivia) 0x440a(es-SV) : Spanish (El Salvador) 0x480a(es-HN) : Spanish (Honduras) 0x4c0a(es-NI) : Spanish (Nicaragua) 0x500a(es-PR) : Spanish (Puerto Rico)