Question

I cannot get the pager to work for my ListUsers page. The method in my controller looks like:

public ActionResult ListUsers(int? page, int? pageSize) {   
    int totalItems;
    var members = Membership.GetAllUsers(page ?? 1, pageSize ?? 50, out totalItems);
    ViewData["Users"] = ToList<MembershipUser>(members);
    return View();
}

And my aspx page has the following looks like:

<% var users = ViewData["Users"] as List<MembershipUser>; %>

<% foreach( var user in users ){ %>
           Email is: <%= user.Email %>
<% } %>

<%= Html.Pager((IPagination)ViewData["Users"])%>

I get the error

“Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Web.Security.MembershipUser]’ to type ‘MvcContrib.Pagination.IPagination’.”

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I am not using Html.Grid within my view. I got it to work, but not sure if this is the best way code. Here it is:

(my controller)

public ActionResult ListUsers(int? page, int? pageSize) {

int totalItems;
var members = Membership.GetAllUsers(page ?? 0, pageSize ?? 50, out totalItems);
ViewData["Users"] = ToList(members);
// a second variable
var members2 = Membership.GetAllUsers();
ViewData["Users2"] = ToList(members2).AsPagination(page ?? 1, 50);
return View();
}

(my view)

<%  var users = ViewData["Users"] as List; %>

<% foreach( var user in users ){ %>
UserName: <%= user.UserName %>
Email: <%= user.Email %>
<% } %>
//the pager
<%= Html.Pager("Users2")%>

Update: Paging is off by 1. Clicking "next" from the default page will skip a page. How do I fix this? The .AsPagination() method does not accept 0 AND starting .GetAllUsers() at 1 will not show the actual first page.