The latest articles on DEV Community by Laurent Egbakou (@lioncoding). https://dev.to/lioncoding https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F373525%2Faed3f343-529c-4480-9495-750e34b6c932.jpg https://dev.to/lioncoding en Laurent Egbakou Sun, 24 May 2020 01:30:00 +0000 https://dev.to/lioncoding/getting-started-with-restcountries-net-31j3 https://dev.to/lioncoding/getting-started-with-restcountries-net-31j3 <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--qaCTMv0C--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1%2AeRBPmddj7YoW-37diJITPA.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--qaCTMv0C--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1%2AeRBPmddj7YoW-37diJITPA.png" alt=""></a></p> <p>In this article, Let me show you my open source Nuget package <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/RESTCountries.NET/">RESTCountries.NET</a> developed in .NET Standard.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/RESTCountries.NET/">RESTCountries.NET</a> is a .NET Standard wrapper library around the API provided by REST Countries(<a href="https://restcountries.eu">https://restcountries.eu</a>).</p> <p><a href="https://restcountries.eu">htpps://restcountries.eu</a> is a RESTful API which provides information about countries such as name , capital city , population , currencies ,borders info , languages , flag , calling codes , etc.</p> <p>With <strong>RESTCountries.NET</strong> , we can:</p> <ul> <li>Retrieve a list of countries.</li> <li>Get a list of country names in others languages such as <strong><em>German</em></strong> , <strong><em>Spanish</em></strong> , <strong><em>French</em></strong> , <strong><em>Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Croatian</em></strong> , <strong><em>Japanese</em></strong> , <strong><em>Breton</em></strong> , and <strong><em>Persian</em></strong> language.</li> <li>Search by country name.</li> <li>Search by capital city.</li> <li>Search by ISO 4217 currency code.</li> <li>Search by continent: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania.</li> <li>Search by regional bloc.</li> <li>Apply filters to retrieve what we need.</li> <li>etc.</li> </ul> <h3> Setup </h3> <ul> <li>The library is available on NuGet at <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/RESTCountries.NET/">https://www.nuget.org/packages/RESTCountries.NET/</a> </li> <li>Install it into your .NET project(.NET Standard, .NET Core, Xamarin, etc).</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--cWh61zXW--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/864/1%2Aoqjo0kuxpH66pZne91RW_A.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--cWh61zXW--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/864/1%2Aoqjo0kuxpH66pZne91RW_A.png" alt=""></a></p> <h3> Usage </h3> <ul> <li><strong>Add namespace</strong></li> </ul> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <ul> <li><strong>Get all countries</strong></li> </ul> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <blockquote> <p>Each method return an object of type <a href="https://github.com/egbakou/RESTCountries.NET/blob/master/src/RESTCountries.NET/Models/Country.cs"><em>Country</em></a> or a <em>List</em> of <a href="https://github.com/egbakou/RESTCountries.NET/blob/master/src/RESTCountries.NET/Models/Country.cs"><em>Country</em></a>. You can apply filters on the returned value to retrieve what you need.</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li><strong>Get a list of country names</strong></li> </ul> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <blockquote> <p>Country names are in English by default.</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li><strong>Retrieve a list of country names in Spanish</strong></li> </ul> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <blockquote> <p>Available languages are: de(German language), es(Spanish language), fr(French language), ja(Japanese language), it(Italian language), br(Breton language), pt(Portuguese language), nl(Dutch language), hr(Croatian language) and fa(Persian language).</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li><strong>Search by country partial name or full name</strong></li> </ul> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <blockquote> <p>The first method could return a list of countries or a list of one element.</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li><strong>Search by continent: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania</strong></li> </ul> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <blockquote> <p>Possibles values of “continent” are <strong>Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>For more information, check out the full documentation at <a href="https://github.com/egbakou/RESTCountries.NET">https://github.com/egbakou/RESTCountries.NET</a></p> <h3> Conclusion </h3> <p>In web applications(.NET or .NET Core) RESTCountries.NET allows us to populate country select tag options dynamically. Populate Xamarin Picker with a list of countries become easy.</p> xamarinforms nugetpackage countrydata netcore