ASP.NET MVC. Clean way to implement persistant sorting?

Question

I still haven`t found any example of sorting implementation through paging in ASP.NET MVC
(sort by name->press page 2->page 2 is still sorted by name).

I could "hack" it, make it dirty, but i`m sure there have to be good "how-to" guides for this.

What about sorting by two columns?

Answer 1

Just keep the sort expression in your model view and write it to the pagination route links.
For example like:

/MyEntity/Page/2?sort=Name

Or with custom routing like:

/MyEntity/Page/2/Name

For the latter the route mapping would look like:

{controller}/Page/{pageIndex}/{sortExpression}

Answer 2

I do it exactly the way aleris does except I use a enum field on my model for the sort values, this way it will fall back on the default if they enter a sort paremeter that doesn't exist.

public enum SortArticle
{
   Title,
   Published
}

public enum SortOrder
{
   Asc,
   Desc
}

articles/{sort}/{order}/{page}
articles/published/desc/1