<asp:Button runat="server" ID="SubmitButton" Text="Submit For Approval" CausesValidation="true" OnClick="SubmitButton_Click" OnClientClick="javascript:window.scrollTo(0,0);" />

    Protected Sub SubmitButton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles SubmitButton.Click
        CreateNewArticle()
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub CreateNewArticle()
 
        Dim newArtID As Int32 = 0
        Dim body As String = String.Empty
        Dim art As Article = Nothing
        Dim artBody As ArticleDetail = Nothing
 
        Try
            'create the new article
            art = Article.CreateArticle(-1,
                                        articletitle.Text,
                                        articlesummary.Text,
                                        False,
                                        Date.Now,
                                        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.Remove(0, InStr(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name, "\")).Replace(".", " ").ToUpper,
                                        GetVisibiliy)
            art.UpdatedDate = Date.Now
 
            If articlebody.Content.Contains("<img") Then
                art.ThumbnailImage = Mid(articlebody.Content, InStr(articlebody.Content, "src=") + 5, InStr(InStr(articlebody.Content, "src=") + 5, articlebody.Content, "/>") - (InStr(articlebody.Content, "src=") + 5)).Replace(Chr(34), "").TrimEnd
            Else
                art.ThumbnailImage = "~/Content/Images/JCBLogo.png"
            End If
 
            'create the article detail
            artBody = ArticleDetail.CreateArticleDetail(-1, -1, articlebody.Content.Replace("&nbsp;", " "))
 
            'save to the db
            Using insertContext As New JCB_IntranetEntities
                insertContext.AddToArticles(art)
                insertContext.AddToArticleDetails(artBody)
                insertContext.SaveChanges()
            End Using
 
            newArtID = art.ArticleID
 
        Catch ex As Exception
            ErrorLogging.AddNewErrorLogEvent(ex)
            Throw
        Finally
            If articlebody.Content IsNot Nothing Then
                articlebody.Content = Nothing
                articlebody.Dispose()
            End If
            If artBody IsNot Nothing Then artBody = Nothing
            If art IsNot Nothing Then art = Nothing
        End Try
 
        'If the save worked then redirect to the article
        If newArtID > 0 Then
            Response.Redirect(String.Format("~/Articles/Article.aspx?ArticleID={0}", newArtID))
        End If
 
    End Sub
 

I have quite a complex set of classes which parses an XML file or RSS feeds.

I know that radgrid can bind to an arraylist, so I have this code:

  protected void RadGrid1_NeedDataSource(object source, Telerik.Web.UI.GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs e)
{

ArrayList arraylist = new ArrayList();


if (dict != null)
{
foreach (var v in dict)
{




arraylist.Add(new RSSFeedItem(v.Date, v.Description, v.Title, v.Title));
RadGrid1.DataSource = arraylist;


}
}
}

"dict" is a collection of articles in an RSS feed. So for every article inside, I add that article's date, link, description, etc to the array list, and then set the datasource to that arraylist.

On the last line of the code, I check the grid's state and it is containing the items (e.g. first pass in the loop, there is a count of 1, etc). Datasource has a count of 25 which contains the articles.

Also, how can I get the row count programatically?

Thanks