ASP.NET has DataGrid control, and datagrid control has build in support for pagination. What I do in this post is just something like datagrid pagination, but I add two buttons each of them to navigate to previous and next page respectively.
I use ListOfPage class to produce list of page number, you can see more on this class in my previous post here. For simplicity I use array of string as data source, in more common scenario maybe we use data from database, represent it in DataTable then use the DataTable as a data source.
I do the manual pagination in ASP.NET with code behind style. There is I put the code that produce list of page in a separate file (I named it ManualPagination.aspx.cs). The presentation page laid in ManualPagination.aspx which refers to our code behind file.
Let’s start with presentation page! It’s quite simple, this is the source code (ManualPagination.aspx):
- <%@ Page Language=”C#” CodeFile=”ManualPagination.aspx.cs” Inherits=”ManualPagination.CodeBehindClass” %><html>
<head>
<title>Manual Pagination in ASP.NET</title>
<style type=”text/css”>
.clr
{
background-color:lightblue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form runat=”server”>
<asp:Label id=”lblPresentation” runat=”server” />
<p />
<asp:Button id=”btnPrev” text=”Prev” onclick=”btnPrev_Click” runat=”server” />
<asp:Label id=”lblPages” runat=”server” />
<asp:Button id=”btnNext” text=”Next” onclick=”btnNext_Click” runat=”server” />
</form>
</body>
</html>
One of the important portion of our presentation page relies on the following code:
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