listView DataPager and custom userControl

Question

i have a to make a test with 25 question so i created a user control for Question and i create a page with list view that contain only the question user control

this is the cs of the question usercontrol

public partial class ucScoringQuestion : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    public int CheckedIndex { get { return rbAnswers.SelectedIndex; } }
    public ScoringQuestion scoringQuestion { get; set; }
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            if (scoringQuestion != null)
            {
                foreach (string item in scoringQuestion.GetAnswersAsList())
                {
                    rbAnswers.Items.Add(new ListItem(item));
                }
                lblQuestion.Text = scoringQuestion.GetQuestionText();
            }
        }
    }
}

and this is the asp of the page

    <div style="margin: 0 auto; width: 900px;">
    <asp:ListView ID="lvQuestions" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="lvQuestions_ItemDataBound">
        <ItemTemplate>
            <uc1:ucScoringQuestion runat="server" ID="ucScoringQuestion" />
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:ListView>
    <asp:DataPager ID="DataPager1" runat="server" PagedControlID="lvQuestions" PageSize="5" OnDataBinding="DataPager1_DataBinding" ViewStateMode="Enabled" OnPreRender="DataPager1_PreRender" OnInit="DataPager1_Init" OnLoad="DataPager1_Load">
        <Fields>
            <asp:NextPreviousPagerField ShowNextPageButton="true" ShowPreviousPageButton="false" ShowFirstPageButton="false" ButtonType="Link" FirstPageText='Next' />
        </Fields>
    </asp:DataPager>
</div>

and this is the c# of the page

       private int QuestionNumber = 0;
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //if (!IsPostBack)
        //{
        //    RuwadEntitiesConnection ctx = new RuwadEntitiesConnection();
        //    lvQuestions.DataSource = ctx.ScoringQuestions.Where(x => x.QuestionStageID == 2).ToList();
        //    lvQuestions.DataBind();
        //}
    }
    protected void lvQuestions_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem || e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.InsertItem)
        {
            ucScoringQuestion ucQuestion = (ucScoringQuestion)e.Item.FindControl("ucScoringQuestion");
            ucQuestion.scoringQuestion = (ScoringQuestion)e.Item.DataItem;
            string pre = MyContext.CurrentLanguage == Languages.Arabic ? "<strong>س. </strong>" : "<strong>Q. </strong>";
            ucQuestion.spnQuestionNumber.InnerHtml = pre + (++QuestionNumber).ToString() + " ";
        }
    }
    protected void DataPager1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        RuwadEntitiesConnection ctx = new RuwadEntitiesConnection();
        lvQuestions.DataSource = ctx.ScoringQuestions.Where(x => x.QuestionStageID == 2).ToList();
        lvQuestions.DataBind();
    }

will i usually bind data in the datapager prerender method, if i am not using a user control it works fine, but if i use usercontrol the questions won't appear . wel i traced the problem i found that the usercontrol is intialised before the invoking lvQuestions_ItemDataBound method how i can fix that if i want to keep using the user control

Answer 1

Good thinking using the databinding in listview DataPager1_PreRender that would make the data query to database minimum. As for your question I can see that you could change the question user control to be be like this:

  public int CheckedIndex { get { return rbAnswers.SelectedIndex; } }
    public ScoringQuestion scoringQuestion { get; set; }
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
            Reinitialize();
    }
    public void Reinitialize()
    {
        if (scoringQuestion != null)
        {
            foreach (string item in scoringQuestion.GetAnswersAsList())
            {
                rbAnswers.Items.Add(new ListItem(item));
            }
            lblQuestion.Text = scoringQuestion.GetQuestionText();
        }
    }

and call the Reinitialize() in lvQuestions_ItemDataBound method like this:

 protected void lvQuestions_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem || e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.InsertItem)
    {
        ucScoringQuestion ucQuestion = (ucScoringQuestion)e.Item.FindControl("ucScoringQuestion");
        ucQuestion.scoringQuestion = (ScoringQuestion)e.Item.DataItem;
        string pre = MyContext.CurrentLanguage == Languages.Arabic ? "<strong>س. </strong>" : "<strong>Q. </strong>";
        ucQuestion.spnQuestionNumber.InnerHtml = pre + (++QuestionNumber).ToString() + " ";
        ucQuestion.Reinitialize();
    }
}

and this will work.