Now, I haven’t tested what I’m about to throw your way, BUT…once you enable paging/sorting through MvcAjax you should probably be able to use jQuery to strip out the header links and disable sorting.

Do you think it would be worth having an option to remove the sorting feature? In your project, why are you disallowing sorting?

I’m just interested in the paging part – Do you have a sample of just paging with no sorting ?

Please email me if you do – I need to get some ajax server side paging into my project and have struggled on this one.

Thanks

The instructions for rendering the HTML from the grid need to exist on the server somewhere, and the partial view has these instructions. It needs to be re-rendered every time you sort and page, so it’s important that these server-side instructions be situated on the server so that the ASP.Net engine can merge your data with these instructions and generate the HTML.

The downside with having everything in one .ASPX page is that you’re going to run into trouble re-processing only part of it. I can envision using an old-school UpdatePanel perhaps, but that’s definitely outside of the current capabilities of the MvcAjax plugin.

I suggest having partial grids (an MvcAjax grid view, if you will) so that the server is working on bite sized chunks of code anyway. This’ll limit the bandwidth and server resources to the absolute minimum.

How would I go about altering it so that all the html/javascript code all sits in the aspx page? We have a lot of tabular data that we need to display on our site, and I would prefer to have it all contained in one aspx, rather than creating a partial for each of them.

I’m not sure how I would need to alter this line if I remove the PeepsGrid partial.
$(“#awesome_grid”).mvcajax(“/Grid/Sort/”, “PeepsGrid”, {});

Make sure you read the readme.txt, and modify the .js file appropriate to match the routes you’re using.