Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET

Chapter 7. Paging Through Data Sources

	Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
	--Aristotle

In real-world scenarios, pagination is an important issue when you have a lot of records to display. To preserve a good level of scalability and performance on the server, you might decide to show the records that form the key view of your application in equally sized pages. You would then want to create a pager bar that has a bunch of ad hoc buttons that allow users to navigate between pages. So with a data source, a sized view, and a pager bar, you are pretty much done; the DataGrid itself would do ...