Maintaining GridView current page index after navigating away from Gridview page

Question

I have a GridView on ASP.NET web form which I have bound to a data source and set it to have 10 records per page.

I also have a hyper link column on the GridView,

Answer 1

I'm more of a fan of the Session approach, personally. Simply save your page index as a session variable, and, if this Session variable isn't null on page load, use it to fire your "OnPageIndexChanging" method, like so:

Set your current page number whenever the page number changes:

    protected void GridViewIndexChanging(object sender, GridViewPageEventArgs e)
    {
        myGridView.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
        Session["pageNumber"] = e.NewPageIndex;
        //whatever your page index changing does...
    }

Then, on Page_Load do something like:

        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            if (Session["pageNumber"] != null)
            {
                GridViewIndexChanged(myGridView, new GridViewPageEventArgs((int)Session["pageNumber"]));
            }
        }