Inserting flags based on user-input

[Suraj S]

I have a small software inside which there is a facility to select which country, Now i have a database of around 150 flags uploaded to My.Resources.

I first started using this code.

       Select Case TextBoxCountry.Text

              Case is = "England"
              PictureBox.image = My.Resources.England
              Case is = "USA"
              PictureBox.image = My.Resources.USA
              Case is = "Austraila"
              PictureBox.image = My.Resources.Australia

and soo on,

But do i have to do this to all the 150 flags?? isn there a simple way??

I have named all the resource images to the names of their country exactly. Eg: India.jpg, Australia.jpg etc

Cant i use this somehow??

And is there a way that i can make it case-insensitive so that if the user enters it in improper case also it will recognise it??

Thank You.

[dday9]

I have a class in my signature where I handle just that. It's titled "Country Flags", take a look at that and see if that helps you out.

[wild_bill]

Good work dday, but my initial though would be to load the data into a database.

[dday9]

Good work dday

Thank you :]

my initial though would be to load the data into a database.

See that's what I thought I should've done, but I figured the dictionary was universal enough to apply to everyone. I thought, what if one was using MySQL, Oracle, or Access, I couldn't just use SQLCompaq(which is what I've started using).

[.paul.]

no need for an extensive select case block or utilizing a database. 1 line:

PictureBox1.Image = DirectCast(My.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject(StrConv(TextBoxCountry.Text, VbStrConv.ProperCase)), Bitmap)

[Suraj S]

no need for an extensive select case block or utilizing a database. 1 line:

PictureBox1.Image = DirectCast(My.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject(StrConv(TextBoxCountry.Text, VbStrConv.ProperCase)), Bitmap)

Thank You very much It worked.

I have one more doubt.
Now to enter the name of the country i have given the user an InputBox, But what i want is a Something like a suggestion box that suggests the name of the country as the start typing the first few letters, so that they will be able to select a country rather than type in a name for which they might not kno the correct spelling.
Im a 3 month old new bee in this field, Please help me out if you can

[Españolita]

Have a look at this thread on VBForums, particularly Post #4 which also gives a link to MSDN documentation.
If you want to use a TextBox, the MSDN documentation should be especially useful.

[annaharris]

I think that you have to implement it for all 150 flags, there is no other option for you.