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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.
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.