How can i know if the user's current region belongs to certain area?

Question

Hello!
I am developing a game for Windows 8 and i want to determine if the current region of the user belongs to a determined area (for rating purposes). I started using Windows::Globalization::GeographicRegion::Code and that works fine for countries by themselves, but i don't know if i can use the same to know if a country is inside Americas or Europe region. Anyone knows if there's a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Hi,

How about get these information from IP address?
You can follow this thread to get the IP address in Windows Store App.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithnativecode/thread/e9c3a808-6b29-4885-964d-0c961e8ac65d/

Best regards,
Jesse

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Answer 2

For that matter i think is easier to use Geolocation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.devices.geolocation.aspx), but i have the same problem: i can get the country, postal code and even latitude/longitude of the device's position, but i need a way to know to which continent that location belongs

Answer 3

Hi,

I searched the document and found that there maybe no direct way to get the continent.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.devices.geolocation.civicaddress.aspx

Maybe we can get the country first, and then keep all the country in a map with continent. Then we can lookup this map to get the continent.
 
Best regards,
Jesse

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Answer 4

That's pretty much what i did in the end, thanks for the help anyway