FamFamFam flag icons for WPF

A simple library for showing flags in WPF.

Installation

Source from NuGet:

Install-Package FamFamFam.Flags.Wpf

Usage

The following code creates an image of flag that corresonds to the two letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that is resolved by the binding expression. Note that you may have to include a path in your binding, depending upon the structure of your DataContext.

<Image Source="{Binding Converter={StaticResource CountryIdToFlagImageSourceConverter}}"
       RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" />

The converter in this binding transforms the country code into an ImageSource. This requires an instance of the converter class to be within scope as a resource.

You might use code such as this somewhere up the logical tree:

<Flags:CountryIdToFlagImageSourceConverter x:Key="CountryIdToFlagImageSourceConverter" />

You will also have to declare the Flags XML namespace by including this code as an attribute on any ancestor node of the above declaration.

xmlns:Flags="clr-namespace:FamFamFam.Flags.Wpf;assembly=FamFamFam.Flags.Wpf"

If images appear blurry, set UseLayoutRounding to true on a parent element, and be sure to use RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" on the <Image> itself.

You could show a ComboBox of country flags and names using the following code:

<ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding Source={x:Static flags:CountryData.AllCountries}}">
  <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
    <DataTemplate DataType="flags:CountryData">
      <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
        <Image Source="{Binding Path=Iso2, Converter={StaticResource CountryIdToFlagImageSourceConverter}}"
               Stretch="None" Width="23" Height="18" RenderOptions.BitmapScalingMode="HighQuality" />
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" Margin="5,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
      </StackPanel>
    </DataTemplate>
  </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

The result would resemble:

Coverage

As noted in CountryData.cs:

• FamFamFam Flags includes images for non-ISO 3166-1 entities
  • an
  • catalonia
  • cs
  • en
  • eu
  • scotland
  • wales
• FamFamFam Flags doesn't cover ISO 3166-1 entities:
  • aq (Antarctica)
  • bq (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)
  • cw (Curaçao)
  • im (Isle of Man)
  • je (Jersey)
  • bl (Saint Barthélemy)
  • mf (Saint Martin (French part))
  • sx (Sint Maarten (Dutch part))
  • ss (South Sudan)

The cw (Curaçao) flag was provided by @serdam55.

Credits

The flag icons were created by Mark James as the famfamfam flag icon set, and are available for free use for any purpose with no requirement for attribution.

This library was created by Drew Noakes in 2009 and was hosted here until moved to GitHub and NuGet in 2017.