Custom Web Control Events Problem

[jgd1234567]

Hi, i'm trying to create my own pager control. I've built very basic web controls in the past but this one is the first where i have had to handle events. So far i have:

public class PagerCommandEventArgs : CommandEventArgs
{
    public int Page { get; set; }
    
    public PagerCommandEventArgs(int page, CommandEventArgs originalArgs) : base(originalArgs)
    {
        this.Page = page;
    }
}

public class Pager : WebControl
{
    public new int Page
    {
        get { return (int)(ViewState["Page"] ?? 1); }
        set { this.ViewState["Page"] = value; }
    }

    public int PageSize
    {
        get { return (int)(ViewState["PageSize"] ?? 15); }
        set { this.ViewState["PageSize"] = value; }
    }

    public int NumRows
    {
        get { return (int)(ViewState["NumRows"] ?? 0); }
        set { this.ViewState["NumRows"] = value; }
    }

    private static readonly object EventPagerCommand = new object();

    public event EventHandler<PagerCommandEventArgs> PagerCommand
    {
        add
        {
            this.Events.AddHandler(EventPagerCommand, value);
        }
        remove
        {
            this.Events.RemoveHandler(EventPagerCommand, value);
        }
    }

    protected virtual void OnPagerCommand(PagerCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        EventHandler<PagerCommandEventArgs> handler = (EventHandler<PagerCommandEventArgs>)base.Events[EventPagerCommand];

        if (handler != null)
            handler(this, e);
    }

    private LinkButton CreateCommand(string commandName, string buttonText, int fieldIndex)
    {
        LinkButton control = new LinkButton();
        control.Text = buttonText;
        control.CommandName = commandName;
        control.CommandArgument = fieldIndex.ToString();
        control.Command += new CommandEventHandler(HandleEvent);
        return control;
    }

    private void HandleEvent(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
    {
        this.OnPagerCommand(new PagerCommandEventArgs(this.Page, e));
    }

    protected override void CreateChildControls()
    {
        this.Controls.Add(this.CreateCommand("First", "First", 0));
    }
}

As you can see it's pretty basic so far. I just want to test handling an event when the First button is clicked. I have created a web form with the following inside:

<cc1:Pager ID="pageNavigation" runat="server" OnPagerCommand="pageNavigation_PagerCommand"></cc1:Pager>

Then in my code behind i have:

protected void pageNavigation_PagerCommand(object sender, PagerCommandEventArgs e)
{
    // Do Nothing
}

I have added a break point in my PagerCommand event handler but it is never reached when i click the button.

Really appreciate if someone could help. Thanks