asp.net-mvcpagination

How do you implement paging in ASP.NET MVC?


Currently, I'm using a strategy found on many blog posts. Basically, the URL contains the page number (e.g. /Users/List/5 will give you the users on page 5 of your paged list of users). However, I'm not running into a situation where one page must list two separate paged lists. How do I go about doing this using ASP.NET MVC? Do I simply provide two url parameters (e.g. /Users/List?page1=1&page2=2)? Is there a better way by using partial views?


Solution

  • Ignoring routes for just a minute, you'll just keep the state of the 2 different pages in the URL as querystring parameters.

    mysite.com/foo?list1page=2&list2page=8

    Then you build the data/pagers accordingly. The pager links will just update the url.

    You can get creative with routes to create more friendly URLs, but I think querystring params are perfectly acceptable here.