Quick Hack to Restrict Countries in DotNetNuke's Address Control

Today, I needed to restrict the countries that were listed in DotNetNuke's Address control for a custom module I was writing. I only wanted to display the North American countries of Canada, Mexico and United States. After surfing the net for 5 minutes, nothing was rising to the top as a solution so I hacked my own solution out.

Assuming you have a web control with the following declaration,

...
<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" 
                TagName="Address" 
                Src="~/Controls/Address.ascx" %>
...
<dnn:Address id="addressControl" runat="server" />
...

you can restrict the countries in the code-behind like so:

using System.Linq;
...
private static readonly string[] Countries 
              = new[] { "Canada", "Mexico", "United States" };
...
protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
{
  base.OnPreRender(e);

  var list = this.addressControl.FindControl("cboCountry") 
                                            as CountryListBox;
  foreach (var item in list.Items.Cast<ListItem>().ToArray())
  {
    if (!Countries.Contains(item.Text))
      list.Items.Remove(item);
  }
}

Enjoy!