Use the PagedControlID property to specify the ID of the control that contains the data that will be paged by the DataPager control. The specified control must implement the IPageableItemContainer interface and must use the same naming container as the DataPager control. An example of a control that you can specify is the ListView control.
If this property is an empty string or nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), the DataPager control checks whether its container control implements the IPageableItemContainer interface. For example, in the ListView control, the PagedControlID property does not have to be set if you put the DataPager control inside the ListView..::.LayoutTemplate template. This is because the DataPager control can automatically find the ListView control by examining the control tree.
The value of this property is stored in view state.