Linkbutton inside Repeater for paging ASP.Net

Question

I'm doing a webpage with a search that brings a lot of information from MSSQL. What I did is a stored procedure that return only the page to be seen on the website.

Right now I'm working on the paging as I need to show something similar than google. If you are at page 1 they show first 10 pages and if you are at page 19 they show since page 9 to 28.

I think the best option to show the page numbers is using a linkbutton inside a repeater. The problem that I have now is that I do not know the best way to take the page number at postback.

Doing a quick sample I assigned an ArrayList to repeater.datasource:

  <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater2" runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" CommandArgument="<%# Container.DataItem %>"><%# Container.DataItem %></asp:LinkButton>
    </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:Repeater>
  <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton2" runat="server" CommandArgument="4654">Test #1</asp:LinkButton>

At my Default.aspx.cs file I have the next code

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (this.IsPostBack)
        {
            string x = LinkButton2.CommandArgument;
            //string y = LinkButton1.CommandArgument;
//I know this line will not work since the Linkbutton1 is inside the Repeater.
            }

What Shall I do to make it works?

Does anyone has a better solution for this paging?

Thank you

Jerry

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '10 at 00:37

You're looking for the ItemCommand event:

  <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" OnItemCommand="ItemCommand" runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
      <asp:LinkButton CommandName="ButtonEvent" CommandArgument="<%# Container.DataItem %>" Text="<%#Container.DataItem %>" runat="server"></asp:LinkButton>
    </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:Repeater>

Code behind:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  if (!Page.IsPostBack)
  {
    Repeater1.DataSource = Enumerable.Range(1, 10);
    Repeater1.DataBind();
  }
}

protected void ItemCommand(Object Sender, RepeaterCommandEventArgs e)
{
  Response.Write("The no. " + ((LinkButton)e.CommandSource).Text + " button was clicked!");
}

... but are you really sure you need the LinkButton? A plain HTML anchor tag might work just as fine, and it's less fuzz. :)

You're welcome, glad to help. Don't forget to mark select an accepted answer for your questions. :) — Jakob Gade, Feb 27 '10 at 03:55
Thank you for this Jakob. The answer deserves to be accepted. — Ian Boyd, Jul 26 '12 at 17:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '12 at 19:34

I used @JakobGade and this is what worked for me:

<asp:Repeater ID="rpMemList" runat="server" ClientIDMode="Static" 
onitemcommand="rpMemList_ItemCommand">
     <ItemTemplate>

          <asp:LinkButton ID="lbMember" CommandArgument='<%# Eval("memID")%>' CommandName="SelMem" runat="server" ClientIDMode="Predictable"><%# Eval("memFullName")%></asp:LinkButton>

     </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Then tested it within code-behind:

    protected void rpMemList_ItemCommand(object source, RepeaterCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        string a = e.CommandArgument.ToString();
        string b = e.CommandName.ToString();
        string c = e.CommandSource.ToString();
        string d = e.Item.ToString();

    }

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '10 at 00:26

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Just a thought, have you tried using a "DataGrid" object, adding a column, making it an item template and then putting in the elements you need to repeat within the template formatted. The DataGrid also automatically handles paging when set to true...

answered Feb 26 '10 at 00:26

DRapp

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Well, the problem with using an automatic pagging is that I need to bring all the registers from the DB and to make it quicker I want to return just what will be shown ;) – Gerardo Abdo Feb 26 '10 at 17:31

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 26 '10 at 00:32

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You never stated what type of control it is your paging. If you are using ASP.Net 3.5 then I HIGHLY suggest using the ListView control and handling the paging with the DataPager control.

answered Feb 26 '10 at 00:32

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What I have seen is that Datapager needs a control assigned to automatically paging and for that I need to bring all the registers from the DB and to make it quicker I want to return just what will be shown – Gerardo Abdo Feb 26 '10 at 17:23

Linkbutton inside Repeater for paging ASP.Net

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