Adding Link Button to footer of GridView in ASP.NET

Question

How do I do this? Basically, next to the page numbers in the GridView I want a link button to disable paging. This works, but I want the button inside the footer of the GridView, next to the page numbers. How do I do this?

Answer 1

you could add following to your codebehind(assuming VB.Net is ok):

 Private Sub GridView1_RowCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles GridView1.RowCreated
    Select Case e.Row.RowType
        Case DataControlRowType.Footer
            Dim LnkBtnPaging As New LinkButton
            LnkBtnPaging.ID = "LnkBtnPaging"
            LnkBtnPaging.Text = IIf(GridView1.AllowPaging, "no paging", "paging").ToString
            AddHandler LnkBtnPaging.Click, AddressOf LnkBtnPagingClicked
            e.Row.Cells(0).Controls.Add(LnkBtnPaging)
            e.Row.Cells(0).ColumnSpan = e.Row.Cells.Count
            While e.Row.Cells.Count > 1
                e.Row.Cells.RemoveAt(e.Row.Cells.Count - 1)
            End While
    End Select
End Sub

Private Sub LnkBtnPagingClicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    Me.GridView1.AllowPaging = Not Me.GridView1.AllowPaging
End Sub

Remember to change the grid's ID to your's and to add ShowFooter="True" in the GridView's Tag on the ASPX.

EDIT: added code to auto-adjust footer's columncount and columnspan