Maybe I asked my question the wrong way, the point is, I want a dropdownlist with countries in my registration form.

How can I implement a dropdownlist with countries in my memberRegister.ascx user control without manualy typing all the countries?

Thanks for your help,

Anthony

Hi Anthony,

If you're OK with the fact that the uComponents Country Picker is missing some countries (I think you said you were), you could use the same method to populate your dropdown.  Check out the source code for the CountryPicker - check the FillWithIsoCountries method - you can just copy that into your usercontrol.  See this blog for more info on how it works.

Otherwise as we talked about previously you can populate a table in your DB with a country list and read from that

Hope this helps,
Tom

Ah, cross-posted at the same time! ;-)  Great minds, eh?!

Haha, indeed!

Hi Lee, hi Tom,

I used the solution as suggested here:

http://www.prolificnotion.co.uk/c-utility-method-to-populate-list-controls-with-all-countries-as-given-in-iso-3166-1/

I created a Utilities.cs class and just pasted the code in, than I filled my dropdowlist control like this:

DropDownList ddlCountry = (DropDownList)cuw.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("Country");
Utilities.FillWithISOCountries(ddlCountry);

And it works like a charm

Thanks a lot for your help,

Anthony

Hi Guys,

I'm back already. The problem I'm facing now is to write back a selected country from my countrie dropdownlist in the registration form to the member profile:

for that purpose I use the code I found in Mike Taylors blog on creating a usercontrol for a registration form (an excellent blog post by the way)

I used for instance this code to save checked values from a checkbox list to the jobseeker membertype:

CheckBoxList chkList = (CheckBoxList)cuw.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("FieldsExperience");

                string chkboxValue = "";

                foreach (ListItem item in chkList.Items)

                    if (item.Selected)

                        chkboxValue += (chkboxValue == "" ? "" : ",") + item.Value;

                mp.JobExperience = chkboxValue;

I tried to do the same with the Countries dropdownlist:

DropDownList ddlCountry = (DropDownList)cuw.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("Country");

                string ddlCountryValue = "";

                foreach (ListItem item in ddlCountry.Items)

                    if (item.Selected)

                        ddlCountryValue += (ddlCountryValue == "" ? "" : ",") + item.Value;

                mp.Country = ddlCountryValue;

But this isn't working, after submitting the registration form, the selected country is not saved to my member_country property of the jobseeker member type (this property is of datatype uComponents Country Picker:

So my question is, how can I save a selected country in the registration form to my membertype?

Thanks for your help,

Anthony

Hi Anthony,

It looks like the Country Picker stores the full country name for it's data, but the example on the blog stores the code (ie US instead of United States).  To fix just adjust your code to grab the Text instead of the Value.

Also, no need to do a loop, that's needed for the CheckBoxList since it can have multiple items selected, but for the dropdown you can just do:

string ddlCountryValue = ddlCountry.SelectedItem.Text;
mp.Country = ddlCountryValue;

Hope this helps,
Tom

Hi Tom,

Yes, the selected country is saved now to the created member:

But I'll do some more testing on this because on my first test, I chose "Panama", and the country that was saved to the created member was "Belgium"!

Maybe there are some inconsistencies between the values that are created by the .NET utitlity class and the uComponents Country Picker, although Lee said that the uComponents Country Picker is also using this utility class for it's list of countries.

Anyway as always, thanks a lot for your help, and have a nice weekend,

Anthony

Hi Anthony,

You are in Belgium aren't you?  I think the code on the blog attempts to set the selected country to your country (mine shows US by default).  So perhaps there's some sort of viewstate/lifecycle issue.  Make sure that you only populate the dropdown on the initial load and not again on a postback

if (!Page.IsPostBack) {
  Utilities.FillWithISOCountries(ddlCountry);
}

-Tom

yup, it's working now. I created a test user and selected Panama and the country is saved correctly to the created member:

:)

And yes, I'm from Belgium.

Hi, Tom, Lee,

I'm working now on a user control that lists all members from a given Member Group ("jobseekers", "employers").

I access a member profile using the MemberProfile.GetUserProfile() method

however, when I access the member's country property (of datatype uComponents Country Picker) I just get a number.

So my question is, how can I get to the Country text string that is associated with this number?

Thanks for your help,

Anthony

Hi Tom, Lee,

Problem solved. Apparently I was reading out old testmembers where the country value wasn't set.

greetings,

Anthony

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