Grid-View Ajax style

[hrishi321]

Hello All, I am very confused to choose among many ways to do a task efficiently. Please suggest me the best way to do the following.. All I want is to "search a sql-database and show up the result in a grid". Note that each row would have an image, a link and some text. My main check points are 1) Ajax-style grid: On pressing next-page, only the grid should be updated not the whole page 2) Client side pagination: Since the search result might be huge, on each time pressing the next-page, I want to get only the specified rows from the server. NOT THE WHOLE SEARCH RESULT- WHICH WOULD SLO DOWN MY INITIAL GRID SHOWING ..... Solution Options::: I am new to web-programming. While browsing through I got the following points...But i am not able to put them all together and somehow i am not confident about it..very much confused what to use and what not to... please help!!! 1) asp.net ajax toolkit 2) use a simple way to create a table with many rows in client side using java script, and get the data form server using AJAX writing the all code of myself. But in this case i need to have a way of pagination if myself 3) etc (may be many other solutions exist) Practically, there may be many pros and cons which I am unaware of. I am looking for something efficient and easy to use. May be less code. technology: vs2008/2010, Ajax/Jquerry/JS, sql-db... since havent started teh project I am open to any technology which gives the best solution. thanks in advance :)

[Sandeep Mewara]

hrishi321 wrote:

I am looking for something efficient and easy to use. May be less code.

Based on the following parameters, my suggestions would be: 1. Use a DataGrid and not a simple table to avoid extra code 2. Implement server side pagination such that each page is fetched on-demand 3. Use client side techniques to update the grid - jQuery AJAX, ASP.NET AJAX, Callback, WebMethods, etc. One mistake in your question: "Client-side pagination" => that means whole data in one go and on page change no data fetched from server. That would not be needed.

Sandeep Mewara [My last tip/trick]: Server side Delimiters in ASP.NET[^]