ASP.NET Repeater Paging/Sorting

Question

So what's the real story on how to do this. All of the examples I find use Default Paging (HOW does anybody find that acceptable???) but I want to use custom paging. I can't use a GridView because I need more flexibility. The examples I see all use the PagedDataSource class but I can't find one that uses Custom Paging. Am I doomed to have to roll my own paging/sorting solution to avoid the bloatware of the other build-in methods?

Answer 1

I think most people who need this much custom work will reach for a third-party control toolkit, like Telerik, DevExpress, Infragistics, or ComponentOne.

If you want to do it once you'll probably want to do it again, and therefore it's worthwhile to have a quality, re-usable, generic, tested solution available.

Answer 2

A simple repeater used for paging where a few page numbers are rendered horizontally is pretty easy to code up and re-use.