PagingRepeater Control with Page Navigation

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Introduction

I found the need to page through a Repeater object in C#, since it is light weight and offers the flexibility that DataGrid doesn't have. There are a couple of bugs with the ViewState, but this is a work in progress and I hope that it will be resolved. The control works fine as-is, though. The implementation of the paging was inspired from the DataGrid directly using Anakrino, the decompiler for .NET.

Using the Control

The control can be added to your favorite control library, and then use the Add/Remove Control context menu on the Toolbox panel, to add the refence to the compiled dll. Dragging this to the page will generate the following:

<cc1:PagingRepeater id="PagingRepeater1" runat="server"></cc1:PagingRepeater>

Switching to design view at this point before building your templates is advised since the templates contain data binding, the IDE will give you errors about switching to design view. I have attempted to implement a full range of features a leveraged already written code wherever possible.

I am open to suggestions and improvments on this class. As I use it in more and more real-world applications, it will become for feature complete.