Get list of currency code using CultureInfo

Question

I want to pass the list of all currency symbols to property in c# so instead of manualy giving list of of currency code is there any way to get the available list of currency code or currency symbols using CultureInfo.

Answer 1

Note that this may not be completely possible, because a given machine may not have all cultures installed.

That being said, you can load cultures using the GetCultures method

CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures);

Adding in a little bit of LINQ to provide a selection...

// string[] rather than char[] due to NumberFormatInfo.CurrencySymbol returning a string
string[] currencySymbols = 
    CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures)

        // This will select the currency symbol for each given Culture
        // Because cultures define a host of number formatting rules, you have to dig into the NumberFormat property to get Currency Symbol
        .Select(culture => culture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol)

        // Since some cultures use the same currency symbol, this will trim out duplicates
        .Distinct()

        // Enumerate this to an array in order to avoid reevaluating the entire process every time it's accessed
        .ToArray();