Sharepoint 2010 custom webpart paging - sharepoint

Question

I am trying to implement simple paging on my sharepoint webpart. I have a single news articles list which has some simple columns. I want to be able to have then five on a page and with some numerical paging at the bottom. I have gone through the net trying to understand splistitemcollectionposition but with no luck. If anyone can help please can you give me a simple code example or some guidanc
Many thanks
Chris

Answer 1

I would suggest using SPDataSource and a SPGridView, together they will implement paging and many other cool features with minimal or no code.

Answer 2

Use this a a guide for some of the classes/methods/properties you might need to use to get paging to work. Be aware that this code does not compile, i have just pulled together various code snippets that i have in my own list results framework, which includes paging, sorting, grouping and caching. It should be enough to get you started though.
public class PagedListResults : System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart {
protected SPPagedGridView oGrid;
protected override void CreateChildControls() {
this.oGrid = new SPPagedGridView();
oGrid.AllowPaging = true;
oGrid.PageIndexChanging += new GridViewPageEventHandler(oGrid_PageIndexChanging);
oGrid.PagerTemplate = null; // Must be called after Controls.Add(oGrid)
oGrid.PagerSettings.Mode = PagerButtons.NumericFirstLast;
oGrid.PagerSettings.PageButtonCount = 3;
oGrid.PagerSettings.Position = PagerPosition.TopAndBottom;
base.CreateChildControls();
}
public override void DataBind() {
base.DataBind();
SPQuery q = new SPQuery();
q.RowLimit = (uint)info.PageSize;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(info.PagingInfoData)) {
SPListItemCollectionPosition pos = new SPListItemCollectionPosition(info.PagingInfoData);
q.ListItemCollectionPosition = pos;
} else {
//1st page, dont need a position, and using a position breaks things
}
q.Query = info.Caml;
SPListItemCollection items = SPContext.Current.List.GetItems(q);
FilterInfo info = null;
string tmp = "<View></View>";
tmp = tmp.Replace("<View><Query>", string.Empty);
tmp = tmp.Replace("</Query></View>", string.Empty);
info.Caml = tmp;
info.PagingInfoData = string.Empty;
info.CurrentPage = oGrid.CurrentPageIndex;
info.PageSize = oGrid.PageSize;
if (oGrid.PageIndex == 0 || oGrid.CurrentPageIndex == 0) {
//do nothing
} else {
StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder();
value.Append("Paged=TRUE");
value.AppendFormat("&p_ID={0}", ViewState[KEY_PagingPrefix + "ID:" + oGrid.PageIndex]);
info.PagingInfoData = value.ToString();
}
int pagecount = (int)Math.Ceiling(items.Count / (double)oGrid.PageSize);
for (int i = 1; i < pagecount; i++) { //not always ascending index numbers
ResultItem item = items[(i * oGrid.PageSize) - 1];
ViewState[KEY_PagingPrefix + "ID:" + i] = item.ID;
}
oGrid.VirtualCount = items.Count;
DateTime time3 = DateTime.Now;
DataTable table = new DataTable("Data");
DataBindListData(table, items);
this.oGrid.DataSource = table;
this.oGrid.DataBind();
this.oGrid.PageIndex = oGrid.CurrentPageIndex; //need to reset this after DataBind
}
void oGrid_PageIndexChanging(object sender, GridViewPageEventArgs e) {
oGrid.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
oGrid.CurrentPageIndex = oGrid.PageIndex;
}
}
public class FilterInfo {
public string Caml;
public string PagingInfoData;
public int CurrentPage;
public int PageSize;
}
public class SPPagedGridView : SPGridView {
protected override void InitializePager(GridViewRow row, int columnSpan, PagedDataSource pagedDataSource) {
pagedDataSource.AllowCustomPaging = true;
pagedDataSource.VirtualCount = virtualcount;
pagedDataSource.CurrentPageIndex = currentpageindex;
base.InitializePager(row, columnSpan, pagedDataSource);
}
private int virtualcount = 0;
public int VirtualCount {
get { return virtualcount; }
set { virtualcount = value; }
}
private int currentpageindex = 0;
public int CurrentPageIndex {
get { return currentpageindex; }
set { currentpageindex = value; }
}
}

Answer 3

check out my post on how to page using SPListItemCollectionPosition, I did a component to page over lists, maybe it can help -> http://hveiras.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/listpagert-using-splistitemcollectionposition/