Pager Control for ASP.NET
Paging is an important thing that every web developer should know about. In ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0, just DataGrid and GridView has built-in support for paging, and for somebody who prefers Repeater or DataList to DataGrid or GridView (like me!), it is so painful to implement paging. And as a developer, it was very painful for me. So I decided to write a pager control to simplify this problem on my web applications in a developer friendly way. First, I implemented a version of the Pager control last year. It came with some cool features, but also had two major weaknesses.
- It wasn't suitable for more than 20 pages.
- It used querystring to get the current pPage index, and it was annoying somehow.
and hopefully the presented version has fixed both of the above issues.
- It has the ability to handle large size pages with something I called Smart Shortcuts, they are really cool and are shown in figure-1 in gray background cells.
- The generated hyperlinks do more than a simple hyperlink. they cause a postback to the server, so no more query string parameter will be needed.