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Hi All,

recently I started a discussion about loading data in GridView component. Richard Deeming pointed me out to the SelectMethod option in asp.net 4.5 and newer.
I created a test website that call my OData service using LINQ in the SelectMethod.
When I set AllowPaging to false I see a long list of users appear in my website. Setting it to true leads to a must be reducible node error.
If the setting is changed in asp this happen but also if I set the value to true in the Page_LoadComplete method.

The error occurs in a Validation part in asp.net of which I have no control.

Has anyone had this same problem? And how did you solve it?
Richard Deeming and I suspect the OData web api service despite the call is done with $orderby=....

What I have tried:

ASP.NET
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <div>
            <asp:GridView runat="server" ID="GrdTest"
                AutoGenerateColumns="false" DataKeyNames="Id" 
                ItemType="Global.MarinGlobalService.Models.User"
                SelectMethod="GrdTest_GetData"
                AllowSorting="true"
                AllowPaging="false" PageSize="10"
                OnRowDataBound="GrdTest_RowDataBound"
                >
                <Columns>
                    <asp:DynamicField DataField="Id" HeaderText="Id" SortExpression="Id" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right"/>
                    <asp:DynamicField DataField="Name" HeaderText="Name" SortExpression="Name" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:DynamicField DataField="SurName" HeaderText="Surname" SortExpression="Surname" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:DynamicField DataField="GivenName" HeaderText="GivenName" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="In #Usergroups" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right">
                        <HeaderTemplate><asp:Label runat="server" ID="GrdCount" /></HeaderTemplate>
                        <ItemTemplate><%# Item.UserGroup?.Count %></ItemTemplate>
                    </asp:TemplateField>
                </Columns>
            </asp:GridView>
        </div>
        <div>
            <asp:GridView runat="server" ID="GrdCountry"
                AutoGenerateColumns="true" DataKeyNames="Id" 
                ItemType="Global.MarinGlobalService.Models.Country"
                SelectMethod="GrdCountry_GetData"
                AllowSorting="true"
                AllowPaging="false" PageSize="10"
                OnRowDataBound="GrdCountry_RowDataBound"
                >

            </asp:GridView>
        </div>
    </form>
</body>

C#
public partial class Index : Page
    {

        private Container container;
        private IQueryable<User> users;
        private IQueryable<Country> countries;
        protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Uri uri = new Uri("http://localhost/api/global");
            container = new Container(uri)
            {
                Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials,
                Timeout = 3600
            };

        }
        protected void Page_LoadComplete(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            GrdTest.BackColor = Color.LightGreen;
            GrdTest.AlternatingRowStyle.BackColor = Color.LightPink;
            GrdTest.RowStyle.BackColor = Color.LightCyan;
            GrdTest.GridLines = GridLines.None;
            GrdTest.CellPadding = 15;
            //GrdTest.AllowPaging = true;

            GrdCountry.BackColor = Color.LightGreen;
            GrdCountry.AlternatingRowStyle.BackColor = Color.LightPink;
            GrdCountry.RowStyle.BackColor = Color.LightCyan;
            GrdCountry.GridLines = GridLines.None;
            GrdCountry.CellPadding = 15;
        }

        // The return type can be changed to IEnumerable, however to support
        // paging and sorting, the following parameters must be added:
        //     int maximumRows
        //     int startRowIndex
        //     out int totalRowCount
        //     string sortByExpression
        public IQueryable<User> GrdTest_GetData(int? maximumRows, int? startRowIndex, out int? totalRowCount, string sortByExpression)
        {
            users = container.Users.OrderBy(x => x.Id);

            totalRowCount = users.Count();
            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(sortByExpression))
            {
                string[] expressions = sortByExpression.ToLower().Split(' ');
                bool descend = (expressions.Length == 2);

                switch (expressions[0])
                {
                    case "id":
                        if (descend)
                            users = container.Users.OrderByDescending(x => x.Id);
                        else users = users.OrderBy(x => x.Id);
                        break;
                    case "name":
                        if (descend)
                            users = container.Users.OrderByDescending(x => x.Name);
                        else users = users.OrderBy(x => x.Name);
                        break;
                    case "surname":
                        if (descend)
                            users = container.Users.OrderByDescending(x => x.Surname);
                        else users = container.Users.OrderBy(x => x.Surname);
                        break;
                    case "givenname":
                        if (descend)
                            users = container.Users.OrderByDescending(x => x.GivenName);
                        else users = container.Users.OrderBy(x => x.GivenName);
                        break;
                }
            }
            if (maximumRows != null)
                return users.Skip(startRowIndex ?? 0).Take(maximumRows ?? 0); // 
            return users;

        }

        protected void GrdTest_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Header)
            {
                if (e.Row.FindControl("GrdCount") is Label lbl)
                    lbl.Text = Server.HtmlDecode($"#Users:<br /> {users.Count()}");
            }
        }

        protected void GrdCountry_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Header)
            {
                if (e.Row.FindControl("GrdCount") is Label lbl)
                    lbl.Text = Server.HtmlDecode($"#Countries:<br /> {countries.Count()}");
            }
        }

        // The return type can be changed to IEnumerable, however to support
        // paging and sorting, the following parameters must be added:
        //     int maximumRows
        //     int startRowIndex
        //     out int totalRowCount
        //     string sortByExpression
        public IQueryable<Country> GrdCountry_GetData(int? maximumRows, int? startRowIndex, out int? totalRowCount, string sortByExpression)
        {
            countries = container.Countries.OrderBy(x => x.Name);
            totalRowCount = countries.Count();
            return countries.AsQueryable(); 
        }
    }

[ArgumentException: must be reducible node]
   System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.VisitChildren(ExpressionVisitor visitor) +97
   System.Linq.Expressions.ExpressionVisitor.VisitExtension(Expression node) +11
   System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.Accept(ExpressionVisitor visitor) +12
   System.Linq.Expressions.ExpressionVisitor.Visit(Expression node) +20
   System.Linq.Expressions.ExpressionVisitor.VisitArguments(IArgumentProvider nodes) +60
   System.Linq.Expressions.ExpressionVisitor.VisitMethodCall(MethodCallExpression node) +43
   System.Web.Util.OrderingMethodFinder.VisitMethodCall(MethodCallExpression node) +43
   System.Linq.Expressions.MethodCallExpression.Accept(ExpressionVisitor visitor) +12
   System.Linq.Expressions.ExpressionVisitor.Visit(Expression node) +20
   System.Web.Util.OrderingMethodFinder.OrderMethodExists(Expression expression) +38
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.QueryableHelpers.IsOrderingMethodFound(IQueryable`1 queryable) +16
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