Bind GridView with many records

Question

I have a GridView which shows only 50 records at a time through paging. If i bind that to a source say containing 150 records, it works like charm but when the record size i

Answer 1

Here is, accoring to your change, how I would do that :

public static Customers GetAllCustomer(int startIndex, int nbrOfResults, out total) {
   Customers customers = new Customers();

   NShop_SmallEntities data = new NShop_SmallEntities();
   var dbCustomers = from c in data.Customers
                     select c;

   // Retreiving total number of customers. NEEDED to get 
   // ObjectDataSource working.
   total = dbCustomers.Count();

   foreach (var dbCustomer in dbCustomers
                         .Skip((startIndex * nbrOfResults) + 1)
                         .Take(NumberOfResults).ToList() {
      customers.Add(Customer.GetCustomer(dbCustomer));
   }
   return customers;
}

/// <summary>
/// This methods must have the same signature than the "real" one... exept the name :oP
/// </summary>
public static int GetAllCustomerCount(int startIndex, int nbrOfResults, out total) {
      return (from c in data.Customers select c).Count();
}

And now in your page ;

<asp:GridView ID="gvBulletins" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" 
   ObjectDataSourceID="objCustomersDS">
</asp:GridView>

<asp:ObjectDataSource ID="objCustomersDS" runat="server" 
     SelectMethod="GetAllCustomer" SelectCountMethod="GetAllCustomerCount" 
     TypeName="AssemblyName" EnablePaging="True" MaximumRowsParameterName="nbrOfResults"
     StartRowIndexParameterName="startIndex">
    <SelectParameters>
         <asp:Parameter Name="startIndex" Type="Int32" />
         <asp:Parameter Name="nbrOfResults" Type="Int32" />
         <asp:Parameter Direction="Output" Name="total" Type="Int32" />
    </SelectParameters>
</asp:ObjectDataSource>