Confessions of a Professional Developer

This is just a quick reminder post about how to do things and in what order to get Paging and Sorting working together on a GridView Control when you’re datasource is NOT a SqlDataSource or ObjectDataSource reference by DataSourceId in the ASPX file but rather a (collection of) POCO objects or other datasource!

.ASPX file

    <asp:GridView CssClass="tableStyle1" HeaderStyle-CssClass="bgA" RowStyle-CssClass="bgB"

        DataKeyNames="Id" AlternatingRowStyle-CssClass="bgB" AllowPaging="true"

        AllowSorting="true" PageSize="50" OnPageIndexChanging="ResultsGrid_PageIndexChanging"

        AutoGenerateColumns="false" runat="server" ID="ResultsGrid" OnRowDataBound="ResultsGrid_RowDataBound"

        OnSorting="ResultsGrid_Sorting" PagerStyle-ForeColor="White">

        <Columns>

            <asp:BoundField DataFi

.CS file

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        if (!this.IsPostBack)

        {

            ViewState["SortExpression"] = "Title";

            ViewState["SortDirection"] = "ASC";

        }

    }

    public void ResultsGrid_PageIndexChanging(object sender, GridViewPageEventArgs e)

    {

        ResultsGrid.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;

        BindResultGrid();

    }

    private void BindResultGrid()

    {

        SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter("ReportingSelect", new SqlConnection(connectionString));

        GetSqlParametersForFilter(PrepareFilterTerms(), da.SelectCommand);

        DataSet results = new DataSet();

        da.Fill(results);

        ResultsGrid.DataSource = ApplySorting(results.Tables[0].DefaultView);

        ResultsGrid.DataBind();

    }

    private DataView ApplySorting(DataView dataViewForSorting)

    {

        dataViewForSorting.Sort = ViewState["SortExpression"].ToString() + " " + ViewState["SortDirection"].ToString();

        return dataViewForSorting;

    }

    public void ResultsGrid_Sorting(object sender, GridViewSortEventArgs e)

    {

        if (e.SortExpression.ToString() == ViewState["SortExpression"].ToString())

        {

            if (ViewState["SortDirection"].ToString().StartsWith("ASC"))

            {

                ViewState["SortDirection"] = "DESC";

            }

            else

            {

                ViewState["SortDirection"] = "ASC";

            }

        }

        else

        {

            ViewState["SortExpression"] = e.SortExpression.ToString();

            if (e.SortDirection == SortDirection.Ascending)

            {

                ViewState["SortDirection"] = "ASC";

            }

            else

            {

                ViewState["SortDirection"] = "DESC";

            }

        }

        BindResultGrid();

    }