Datagrid bound to CollectionBase class doesn't use Enumerator!

[Oliver Hopton]

Hello,

I'm trying to write a PageableCollect ion class which implements paging for
me so I don't need to rely on the paging provided by the DataGrid as that
generates huge viewstate when bound to a collection with a lot of items.

The code below works fine when I use foreach to iterate over it but when I
bind the Datagrid to an instance of this class I get the whole collection
displayed in the grid! Does the Datagrid not use GetEnumerator to obtain an
enumerator? I've also tried overriding the indexer and count properties of
the collection with no success.

Is the DataGrid doing something cheesy with Reflection in the case of being
bound to a class derived from CollectionBase to get directly at the
InnerList inside the collection?

Anybody got any idea what is going on here?

Thanks.
Code follows:

public class PageableCollect ion : CollectionBase
{
private bool fAllowPaging;
private int fPageSize;
private int fCurrentPage;

public int CurrentPage
{
get { return fCurrentPage; }
set { fCurrentPage = value; }
}

public bool AllowPaging
{
get { return fAllowPaging; }
set { fAllowPaging = value; }
}

public int PageSize
{
get { return fPageSize; }
set { fPageSize = value; }
}

public int PageCount
{
get
{
return ((Count % fPageSize) == 0) ? (Count / fPageSize) : ((Count /
fPageSize) + 1);
}
}

public PageableCollect ion()
{
fAllowPaging = false;
fPageSize = 20;
fCurrentPage = 1;
}

public new IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
{
if (!fAllowPaging)
return base.GetEnumera tor();
else
{
int index = ((fPageSize * fCurrentPage) - fPageSize);
int count = fPageSize;

if ((count + index) > Count)
count = Count - index;

return InnerList.GetEn umerator(index, count);
}
}