ID “itemPlaceholder” is not rendered when using custom LayoutTemplate

Question

I've created a simple ASPX-page, added a ListView control to the page and created two implementations of the ITemplate; one for the LayoutTemplate and one for the ItemTemplate. The trick here is that I specify a collection of columns I want to display in the ListView and supplying the collection as a parameter to my LayoutTemplate class. Here's the whole code (the call to "Columns.Skip(1)" in "LoadDataSource" is merely to verify that I can render the ListView with a arbitrary number of columns):

public partial class ListViewITemplate : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    private static IList<string> Columns
    {
        get
        {
            return new List<string>() { "ColumnA", "ColumnB", "ColumnC", "ColumnD", "ColumnE" };
        }
    }

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        DataTable dataTable = LoadDataSource();

        IEnumerable<string> columns = dataTable.Columns.Cast<DataColumn>().Select(column => column.ColumnName);
        MyListView.LayoutTemplate = new MyLayoutTemplate(columns);
        MyListView.ItemTemplate = new MyItemTemplate(columns);
        MyListView.DataSource = dataTable;
        MyListView.DataBind();
    }

    private static DataTable LoadDataSource()
    {
        DataTable dataTable = new DataTable();
        IEnumerable<string> selectedColumns = Columns.Skip(1);
        foreach (string column in selectedColumns)
        {
            dataTable.Columns.Add(column, typeof(string));
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
        {
            DataRow dataRow = dataTable.NewRow();
            foreach (string column in selectedColumns)
            {
                dataRow[column] = "Data in " + column + " " + i;
            }

            dataTable.Rows.Add(dataRow);
        }
        return dataTable;
    }
}

public class MyLayoutTemplate : ITemplate
{
    private IEnumerable<string> Columns { get; set; }

    public MyLayoutTemplate(IEnumerable<string> columns)
    {
        Columns = columns;
    }

    public void InstantiateIn(Control container)
    {
        HtmlTable MyHtmlTable = new HtmlTable();
        HtmlTableRow MyHtmlTableRow = new HtmlTableRow();
        MyHtmlTableRow.Attributes["class"] = "tableheader";
        foreach (string column in Columns)
        {
            HtmlTableCell MyHtmlTableCell = new HtmlTableCell();
            LinkButton MyLinkButton = new LinkButton();

            MyLinkButton.ID = "lbn" + column;
            MyLinkButton.Text = column;
            MyLinkButton.ToolTip = "Sort by " + column;
            MyLinkButton.CommandArgument = column;
            MyLinkButton.Command += new CommandEventHandler(MyLinkButton_Command);
            MyHtmlTableCell.Controls.Add(MyLinkButton);
            MyHtmlTableRow.Cells.Add(MyHtmlTableCell);
        }
        MyHtmlTable.Rows.Add(MyHtmlTableRow);
        HtmlTableRow htmlTableRow = new HtmlTableRow();
        htmlTableRow.ID = "itemPlaceholder";
        MyHtmlTable.Rows.Add(htmlTableRow);

        container.Controls.Add(MyHtmlTable);
    }

    void MyLinkButton_Command(object sender, CommandEventArgs e)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

public class MyItemTemplate : ITemplate
{
    private IEnumerable<string> Columns { get; set; }

    public MyItemTemplate(IEnumerable<string> columns)
    {
        Columns = columns;
    }

    public void InstantiateIn(Control container)
    {
        HtmlTableRow MyHtmlTableRow = new HtmlTableRow();

        foreach (string column in Columns)
        {
            HtmlTableCell MyHtmlTableCell = new HtmlTableCell();
            MyHtmlTableCell.ID = "MyHtmlTableCell" + column;
            Literal MyLiteral = new Literal();
            MyLiteral.ID = "Data" + column;
            MyHtmlTableCell.Controls.Add(MyLiteral);
            MyHtmlTableRow.Cells.Add(MyHtmlTableCell);
        }
        MyHtmlTableRow.DataBinding += new EventHandler(MyTableRow_DataBinding);
        container.Controls.Add(MyHtmlTableRow);
    }

    protected void MyTableRow_DataBinding(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        HtmlTableRow MyHtmlTableRow = (HtmlTableRow)sender;
        DataRowView dataRowView = ((ListViewDataItem)MyHtmlTableRow.NamingContainer).DataItem as DataRowView;
        foreach (string column in Columns)
        {
            HtmlTableCell MyHtmlTableCell = (HtmlTableCell)MyHtmlTableRow.FindControl("MyHtmlTableCell" + column);
            Literal MyLiteral = (Literal)MyHtmlTableCell.FindControl("Data" + column);
            MyLiteral.Text = dataRowView[column].ToString();
        }
    }
}

I have no problem viewing the ListView with varying number of columns, but whenever I click the link in the header I get this server error instead of MethodNotImplemented:

An item placeholder must be specified on ListView 'MyListView'...

I think the answer is straightforward but I just can't find the cause of this. Does anyone have any suggestions?