将DataPager与Repeater和SqlDataReader一起使用

Question

Is it possible to have custom paging with Next and Prev and page numbers between them for Repeater (like GridView )? I found something but it works for 10 pages only. What I want is like this, something like google does for paging:

< 1 2 3 4 ... 15 >

I found out extending Repeater let me use DataPager, explained here: CodeProject: Extend Repeater to support DataPager But when I use SqlDataReader as DataSource I face this error:

Type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader' in Assembly 
    'System.Data, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, 
    PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' is not marked as serializable.

It's my code:

public bool ListBooksByCat(DataPagerRepeater.DataPagerRepeater repeater)
{
    List<string> selection = new List<string>();
    Dictionary<string, object> clause = new Dictionary<string, object>();
    clause.Add("IsValid", true);
    SqlDB myDb = new SqlDB(this.Connection);

    try
    {
        SqlDataReader reader = myDb.Retrive(this.TableName, selection, clause, "bookid", true);
        repeater.DataSource = reader;
        repeater.DataBind();
        reader.Close();
        return true;
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        //logging errors
        return false;
    }
}

Note : DataPagerRepeater.DataPagerRepeater is built in linked article.

Answer 1

Rather than binding to the SqlReader you should bind your control to DataTable or some other collection which take data offline(DataReader always remain in connected mode during binding). You're getting this error because the SqlDataReader is a resource related object and any resource-related object cannot be "passed" to a client.

Answer 2

I copied SqlDataReader to a DataTable then bind the repeater to it:

    SqlDataReader reader = myDb.Retrive(this.TableName, selection, clause, "bookid", true);
    DataTable dt = new DataTable();
    dt.Load(reader);
    reader.Close();
    repeater.DataSource = dt;
    repeater.DataBind();