Forms Data Controls :: Put Pager Control Outside Of The Grieview In 2005 Visual Studio?

Recently according to page design I need to put Grid View pager control outside the grid control itself. The project is working under Visual Studio 2005. DataPager Control is not there yet and even if it was by default it could not be used with GridView.

So I write following code I want to share:

protected void Page_PreRenderComplete(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
GridViewRow pager = grdAAAServices.BottomPagerRow;
if (pager != null)
{
pager.Visible = true;
WebControl webCtl = new WebControl(HtmlTextWriterTag.Div);
webCtl.Controls.Add(pager);
plcPager.Controls.Add(webCtl); //plcPager - placeholder
}
}

It works fine with IE6 version. You can insert, update, sort and page through the grid.

The only thing that pager needs to be visible even if number of records < than Page Size. If not the pager would not be be seen when page is post back inserting new records with total number more than Page Size.