Question

I’m working on an ASP.NET website where I am using an asp:repeater with paging done through a VB.NET code-behind file. I’m having trouble with the database connection though. As far as I can tell, the paging is working, but I can’t get the data to be certain.

The database is a Microsoft Access database. The function that should be accessing the database is:

Dim pagedData As New PagedDataSource  Sub Page_Load(ByVal obj As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)     doPaging() End Sub  Function getTheData() As DataTable     Dim DS As New DataSet()     Dim strConnect As New OleDbConnection('Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=App_Data/ArtDatabase.mdb')     Dim objOleDBAdapter As New OleDbDataAdapter('SELECT ArtID, FileLocation, Title, UserName, ArtDate FROM Art ORDER BY Art.ArtDate DESC', strConnect)     objOleDBAdapter.Fill(DS, 'Art')      Return DS.Tables('Art').Copy End Function  Sub doPaging()     pagedData.DataSource = getTheData().DefaultView     pagedData.AllowPaging = True     pagedData.PageSize = 2      Try         pagedData.CurrentPageIndex = Int32.Parse(Request.QueryString('Page')).ToString()     Catch ex As Exception         pagedData.CurrentPageIndex = 0     End Try      btnPrev.Visible = (Not pagedData.IsFirstPage)     btnNext.Visible = (Not pagedData.IsLastPage)      pageNumber.Text = (pagedData.CurrentPageIndex + 1) & ' of ' & pagedData.PageCount      ArtRepeater.DataSource = pagedData     ArtRepeater.DataBind() End Sub 

The ASP.NET is:

<asp:Repeater ID='ArtRepeater' runat='server'>     <HeaderTemplate>         <h2>Items in Selected Category:</h2>     </HeaderTemplate>       <ItemTemplate>         <li>             <asp:HyperLink runat='server' ID='HyperLink'                 NavigateUrl='<%# Eval('ArtID', 'ArtPiece.aspx?ArtID={0}') %>'>                 <img src='<%# Eval('FileLocation') %>'                     alt='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, 'Title') %>t'/> <br />                 <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, 'Title') %>             </asp:HyperLink>         </li>     </ItemTemplate> </asp:Repeater> 

Answer 1

Problem solved! Pretty much banging my head against the wall now considering how simple it was. It was the Page_Load, I changed it to the following:

Protected Sub Page_Load1(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load     doPaging() End Sub 

And voila, it works!

Also, for the connection string, I ended up using:

Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=|DataDirectory|\ArtDatabase.mdb

Which works great.

Thanks for your help and input guys!