Forms Data Controls :: Why Wasn't GridView's RowDataBound Event Fired

Why wasn't my GridView's RowDataBound event fired? I have a masterpage on whick i have a query button, and I have a content page on which i have a customized GridView(named cgvEmployees,derived from GridView). The logic is when user click the button, the button click event triggered that search the underlying database and populate the GridView.

Everything runs great except that RowDataBound event isn't triggered. Because I have to change some cells' representations in RowDataBound event handler. I have surfed so much pages to find the answer but failed. Below is what i have already done:

1. set the autoeventwireup to true;
2. i have a cgvEmployees.bind() sentence in the button click event handler;
3. i have OnRowDataBound="cgvEmployees_OnRowDataBound" in the content page GridView tag attribute

by the way, the database query is coded by Linq Dynamic Query (please google 'dynamic Linq').

void Master_QueryButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
RetiredEmployeeDataContext db = new RetiredEmployeeDataContext();
NameValueCollection nvcQueryKeyValue = getNVCQueryKeyValue();
Expression<Func<RetiredEmployee, bool>> searchPredicate = getLambdaExpr(nvcQueryKeyValue);
IQueryable<RetiredEmployee> retireds = db.RetiredEmployees;
Expression expr = Expression.Call(typeof(Queryable), "Where",
new Type[] { typeof(RetiredEmployee) }, Expression.Constant(retireds), searchPredicate);
IQueryable<RetiredEmployee> query = db.RetiredEmployees.AsQueryable().Provider.CreateQuery<RetiredEmployee>(expr);
List<RetiredEmployee> employeeList = new List<RetiredEmployee>(query);
List<RetiredEmployeeEO> employees = new List<RetiredEmployeeEO>();
foreach (RetiredEmployee employee in employeeList)
{
RetiredEmployeeEO employeeEO = new RetiredEmployeeEO();
employeeEO.MapEntityToProperties(employee);
employees.Add(employeeEO);
}
cgvEmployees1.ListClassName = typeof(RetiredEmployeeEOList).AssemblyQualifiedName;
cgvEmployees1.LoadMethodName = "LoadFromQuery";
cgvEmployees1.LoadMethodParameters.Clear();
cgvEmployees1.LoadMethodParameters.Add(employees);
cgvEmployees1.DataBind();
}
protected void cgvEmployees1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{
//Add the edit link to the action column.
HyperLink editLink = new HyperLink();
if (((BasePage)this.Page).ReadOnly)
{
editLink.Text = "View";
}
else
{
editLink.Text = "Edit";
}
editLink.NavigateUrl = "employee.aspx" + EncryptQueryString("id=" + ((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).ID.ToString());
if(e.Row.Cells[0].Controls.Count==0)
e.Row.Cells[0].Controls.Add(editLink);
//Add checkbox to display the isactive field.
CheckBox chkActive = new CheckBox();
chkActive.Checked = ((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).liveOrDead;
chkActive.Enabled = false;
if(e.Row.Cells[24].Controls.Count==0)
e.Row.Cells[24].Controls.Add(chkActive);
if (((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).gender.Equals((byte)1))
e.Row.Cells[2].Text = "Male";
else
e.Row.Cells[2].Text = "Female";
if (((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).retiredOr.Equals((byte)1))
e.Row.Cells[14].Text = "Retired1";
else
e.Row.Cells[14].Text = "Retired2";
if (((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).birthday.Equals("1753-01-01"))
e.Row.Cells[3].Text = "";
if (((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).dayToEmployed.Equals("1753-01-01"))
e.Row.Cells[6].Text = "";
if (((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).dayRetired.Equals("1753-01-01"))
e.Row.Cells[7].Text = "";
if (((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).dayParty.Equals("1753-01-01"))
e.Row.Cells[13].Text = "";
if (((RetiredEmployeeEO)e.Row.DataItem).daytoassign.Equals("1753-01-01"))
e.Row.Cells[17].Text = "";
}
}