Efficient gridview in asp.net webforms

Question

Hy guys.

As you know the gridview control is super heavy and reduces performance of the page, as the viewstate length is higher.

I'm trying to get a alternative way to not use default asp.net gridview webforms.

In asp.net mvc we can pass a model for example with Examples[] and in the view iterate over this array and build a grid and using a number of pages as a anchors than when clicked do a request to a one controller and retrieves json with content of the next 10 tuples in database.

My question is, what is for you guys the best way/more efficient to implement a gridview with paging in webforms?

Answer 1

Unless you plan to use the fill GridView functionality, I usually prefer rendering the UI out as HTML TABLE using a asp:Repeater control.

HTH.