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1 Jun 2008

Introducing Open Country Codes: easy to use ISO 3166 country codes for your apps.

Why are some things just much harder than they need to be? Finding a current, easy-to-use data source for populating a country selection box, for example.

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Open Country Codes: ISO 3166 country names and Alpha-2 country codes in HTML, Python, JavaScript, ActionScript, Flex, JSON, and XML

10 Jan 2008

If you're implementing PayPal Website Payments Pro Direct Payment in Flex, you're most likely going to need a ComboBox of country names and their ISO codes as expected by the PayPal API.

There's some freely available code for HTML but I couldn't find anything for Flex. It only took three find and replaces, however, to transform the HTML code into a lovely little Flex component. Here it is in hopes that it will save someone else the trouble in the future.

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PayPal country list component for Flex