Introducing ASP.NET 2.0: GridView Control - Adding Paging Functionality to GridView

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First, you must set the AllowPaging property to True. By default, the GridView shows only one record at a time. You can modify this by changing the PageSize property to a specific value such as 2, 3 depending upon the number of records on the database. The GridView will look similar to Figure 9.

 

Figure 9

Adding Sorting Functionality to GridView

In order to sort the data you just need to set the AllowSorting property to true. The title of each column changes to a hyperlink as given in Figure 10.

Figure 10

Run the project and click on the link of any column to see sorting in action.

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