with or without paging?
If it's without then just change your SQL command to say "Select Top 5...."
(assuming you are using SQL).
Otherwise turn on the page size to 5 :}
I cannot do it on the sql side as it is an xml that I am loading in the
datagrid and sorting it by date. i don't want to have multiple page to be
displayed.
Just want to display the most recent 5 ?
Probably not the most graceful solution but you can dump the XML into a
DataSet, then create a DataView of the DataSet containing the newest entries.
Or you could loop through the actual DataSet and remove all the rows except
the top 5.