Question

I have a GridView and bind a list to it:

List<T> items = T.GetItems();

GridView.DataSource = items.OrderBy(x => x.SomeValue);
GridView.DataBind();

Now in the process of databinding, I would like to access the total number of items in the datasource.

protected void GridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    //access total number of datasource items
}

GridView.Rows or GridView.DataKeys is no help because the gridview is being built at this point. Of course, I could use items.Count() but I would prefer to access the underlying datasource directly.

Update

The solutions posted work without the OrderBy statement which I included later.

Answer 1

protected void GridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
   var count = ((ICollection<T>)GridView.DataSource).Count;
}