User Interface Sorting
If you need to sort the records displayed by the GridView control, the easiest type of sorting to enable is user interface sorting. When you take advantage of user interface sorting, the records are sorted in the server’s memory.
For example, the page in Listing 18.25 contains a GridView that has its AllowSorting property set to the value True. The GridView is bound to an ObjectDataSource that represents the Employees database table (see Figure 18.6).
Figure 18.6. Sorting records with user interface sorting.
Listing 18.25. ShowUISorting.aspx
The ObjectDataSource control in Listing 18.25 is bound to the component in ...
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