Autoincrement Column contains null Values

[rizwan6feb]

I have a DataTable with thousands of records, i want to show these records on per page basis ( i.e a DataGridView showing first 20 records and next button to show next 20 records ...)

To achieve this, i have added an Autoincrement Column to the DataTable so that i can use a filter on the Autoincrement Column to get the desired 20 records from the DataTable. I have used the following code

Dim dc As New DataColumn("Serial",System.Type.GetType("System.Int32"))
        dc.AutoIncrement = True
        dc.AutoIncrementSeed = 1
        dc.AutoIncrementStep = 1
        dt.Columns.Add(dc)

'dt' is the object of DataTable


When i set the datasource of DataGridView to this DataTable, i see null values in the Serial Column

Question is:
How can i get the Autoincrement Column working (with values)

I can't query the database, all i have to do is play around with the available DataTable

[MrMancunian]

AutoIncrement will only work for newly added rows to a datatable. Not for an extra column you add to a datatable. Why don't you use the rownumber of the datatable as Serial? After all, that is a unique AutoIncement number.

Steven