I used a DataTable as the DataSource for GridView, and enabled pager, but it didn't seem to page on its own. I made it work by handling RowCommand and PageIndexChanged event myself, and set PageIndex programatically.

After I read the document for GridView, I now suspect that DataTable does not support pager, which subsequently makes the GridView not paging (on its own). But I could not find any particular documentation on DataTable's pager capability.

Can anyone confirm this? or maybe point me to some web page. (google didn't seem too helpful in this case...)

Thanks in advance,
Peter

According to MSDN, automatic paging via the GridView is only supported for data sources, or for objects that implement the ICollection interface or one of its descendants (i.e. Enumerable, Dictionary, List, Queue, Stack, etc.)

A DataTable doesn't qualify on either of those counts, so your suspecion that the DataTable does not support automatic paging is correct. However, as you have learned, you can page through a DataTable programmatically. Another approach is to use the DataTable to populate a collection which supports paging.



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