Standardized US States Array and Countries Array

Question

Does anyone know of a nice, usable class that everyone on here could benefit from to use in populating the ComboBox controls on a form for the Country and State

Answer 1

I took jp2code's answer and just made a tuple with it, rather than creating a new class and all of that... try this:

public static class StateArray
{
    public static List<(string Abbreviation, string Name)> States { get; }

    static StateArray()
    {
        States = new List<(string, string)>(50);
        States.Add(("AL", "Alabama"));
        States.Add(("AK", "Alaska"));
        States.Add(("AZ", "Arizona"));
        States.Add(("AR", "Arkansas"));
        States.Add(("CA", "California"));
        States.Add(("CO", "Colorado"));
        States.Add(("CT", "Connecticut"));
        States.Add(("DE", "Delaware"));
        States.Add(("DC", "District Of Columbia"));
        States.Add(("FL", "Florida"));
        States.Add(("GA", "Georgia"));
        States.Add(("HI", "Hawaii"));
        States.Add(("ID", "Idaho"));
        States.Add(("IL", "Illinois"));
        States.Add(("IN", "Indiana"));
        States.Add(("IA", "Iowa"));
        States.Add(("KS", "Kansas"));
        States.Add(("KY", "Kentucky"));
        States.Add(("LA", "Louisiana"));
        States.Add(("ME", "Maine"));
        States.Add(("MD", "Maryland"));
        States.Add(("MA", "Massachusetts"));
        States.Add(("MI", "Michigan"));
        States.Add(("MN", "Minnesota"));
        States.Add(("MS", "Mississippi"));
        States.Add(("MO", "Missouri"));
        States.Add(("MT", "Montana"));
        States.Add(("NE", "Nebraska"));
        States.Add(("NV", "Nevada"));
        States.Add(("NH", "New Hampshire"));
        States.Add(("NJ", "New Jersey"));
        States.Add(("NM", "New Mexico"));
        States.Add(("NY", "New York"));
        States.Add(("NC", "North Carolina"));
        States.Add(("ND", "North Dakota"));
        States.Add(("OH", "Ohio"));
        States.Add(("OK", "Oklahoma"));
        States.Add(("OR", "Oregon"));
        States.Add(("PA", "Pennsylvania"));
        States.Add(("RI", "Rhode Island"));
        States.Add(("SC", "South Carolina"));
        States.Add(("SD", "South Dakota"));
        States.Add(("TN", "Tennessee"));
        States.Add(("TX", "Texas"));
        States.Add(("UT", "Utah"));
        States.Add(("VT", "Vermont"));
        States.Add(("VA", "Virginia"));
        States.Add(("WA", "Washington"));
        States.Add(("WV", "West Virginia"));
        States.Add(("WI", "Wisconsin"));
        States.Add(("WY", "Wyoming"));
    }

    public static string[] Abbreviations()
    {
        List abbrevList = new List(States.Count);
        foreach (var state in States)
        {
            abbrevList.Add(state.Abbreviation);
        }
        return abbrevList.ToArray();
    }

    public static string[] Names()
    {
        List nameList = new List(States.Count);
        foreach (var state in States)
        {
            nameList.Add(state.Name);
        }
        return nameList.ToArray();
    }
}