Is there a way to disable ASP:Pager when ListView has less than Pager.PageSize value?

Question

Need that for ASP.NET site, preferable C# but VB will be just fine.

title says all. I guess we all get into situation like this one on daily basis. Pager as UI is useless if there is less than PageSize items in DataObject binded to ListView or other types of Dababindable objects.

So the question how to disable it////

Answer 1

You could hide it in DataBound Event of your Listview when your Datasource's RowCount is less/equal the Pager's PageSize. For example(pseudo-code, change yourDataSource):

Private Sub ListView1_DataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ListView1.DataBound
        Dim dataPager As DataPager = DirectCast(ListView1.FindControl("DataPager1"), DataPager)
        dataPager.Visible = yourDataSource.Rows.Count > dataPager.PageSize
End Sub

EDIT: If you used an ObjectDataSource you can catch its Selected Event to access the Datasource (C#):

protected void ObjectDataSource1_Selected(object sender, ObjectDataSourceStatusEventArgs e)
{
      // Get total count from the ObjectDataSource
      DataTable dt = e.ReturnValue as DataTable;

      int totalRecordCount = dt.Rows.Count;      
 }

VB:

 Private Sub ObjectDataSource1_Selected(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ObjectDataSourceStatusEventArgs) Handles ObjectDataSource1.Selected
        ' Get total count from the ObjectDataSource
        Dim dt As DataTable = DirectCast(e.ReturnValue, DataTable)
        Dim totalRecordCount As Int32 = dt.Rows.Count
 End Sub

Then you can use my code above to switch visibility of the Pager.