Question

The rows.count property on my GridView control only tells me how many rows are displayed on the screen, not the total number available.

The solution below is not working. I have an SqlDataSource and a GridView and neither can be cast into a dataset or datatable.

Answer 1

The SqlDataSource has an event called OnSelected that you can set to a method like the one below –

protected void OnSelectedData(object sender, SqlDataSourceStatusEventArgs e)  
{  
    // Set the record count label  
    RecordCountLabel.Text = "Total Records: " + e.AffectedRows;  
}  

Notice that the e.AffectedRows contains the total number of rows selected.