>Dawa,
>I guess I am not really answering your question, but would reversing the order in your select statement work for your customer? Lets say you order the records by some date field, what about switching the order from acending to decending order.

Our client wants it this way. They want the date to be ascending but to show the last page initially. They said the decending order would confuse their users.

>Why do you specify the datasource twice in your code example? And why do you bind it twice?

Because I don't get a pagecount before I before the initial binding. The second binding is an atempt to display the last page which does display the last but when the "Previous" link button stops working at some point before it reaches the first page. Somebody showed me a way to fire the PageIndexChanged event after initail binding.

So now the following works:

this.myDataGrid.DataSource = this.myDataSet.Tables[0].DefaultView;
this.myDataGrid.DataBind();
if (!Page.IsPostBack) 
{
	// Create an event args... 
	System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridPageChangedEventArgs dgEA = 
		new System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridPageChangedEventArgs(
		this.myDataGrid,this.myDataGrid.PageCount-1); 

	// Invoke the PageIndexChanged() event... 
	this.myDataGrid_PageIndexChanged(this.myDataGrid, dgEA); 
}