Paging on a Datalist
July 6th, 2010 | 
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This morning, my email had the following question:
“I am having a problem with datalist. Is it possible to do paging on datalist? If yes, what is the solution? I am using VB.NET on Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Any recommend extension or solution?”
While I’m pretty sure I’ve addressed this in a previous article, I couldn’t find it doing a quick search, so I’ll review this issue again this morning.
The short answer is that, no you can’t do paging in a DataList. I created a hack for this back in 1.x, but there is no need for that anymore.
The DataList is a web control from the .NET 1.x days and has since been replace with the ListView control.
You can find my discussions of DataList to ListView conversion here:
Other Places Talking About DataList and Paging
- ASP .Net DataList Paging [ Visual Basic Knowledgebase ] – No native support for paging in ASP.Net DataList. Learn how to have Paging in footer Row A Customized DataList PagingIf you ever worked in GridView, you will be amazed with the native funct.
- DotnetSlakers – Ajax Data Controls Project (GridView, DataList … – Recently i came across this project, while just searching for an ajax enabled grid view or data list kinda code. Just for craze. I came across Ajax Data Controls project by DotNetSlakers.com. Read more….. The Ajax Data Controls is a …
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