Introduction
AllowPaging is an important property in web applications to enable paging. Suppose we want to show a limited number of records from a database using a DetailsView or GridView, then we simply enable its AllowPaging property to True and easily add a paging facility. But when we want to add a paging feature to a DataList or Repeater control, then there is not an AllowPaging property. We used PagedDataSource to add a paging feature in DataList or Repeater controls. Here I am displaying records from a database in a DalaList control and adding a paging feature in a DataList.
In this example, the database name is "student" and the database table name is "student_detail". I am giving a screenshot of all records to it easier to understand.
![Student_detail]()
Now take a web application -> take a DataList and four Button controls like in the following figure.
![DataList]()
Write the following code.
Code on .aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs" Inherits="PagininDataList.WebForm1" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
.style1
{
width: 672px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<table style="height: 79px; width: 429px">
<asp:DataList ID="DataList1" runat="server">
<HeaderTemplate>
<h1> Details </h1>
</HeaderTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<tr>
<td><h4>Roll Number</h4> </td>
<td><h4>NAME</h4></td>
<td><h4>AGE</h4></td>
<td><h4>CITY</h4></td>
<td><h4>COURSE</h4></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><h5><%#Eval("roll_no") %></h5></td>
<td><h5><%#Eval("s_name") %></h5></td>
<td><h5><%#Eval("age") %></h5></td>
<td><h5><%#Eval("city") %></h5></td>
<td><h5><%#Eval("course") %></h5></td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:DataList>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btnfirst" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Text="<<" Height="31px" Width="43px" onclick="btnfirst_Click" />
</td>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btnprevious" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Text="<" Height="31px" Width="43px" onclick="btnprevious_Click" />
</td>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btnnext" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Text=">" Height="31px" Width="43px" onclick="btnnext_Click" />
</td>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btnlast" runat="server" Font-Bold="true" Text=">>" Height="31px" Width="43px" onclick="btnlast_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Code on .aspx.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data;
namespace PagininDataList
{
public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
SqlDataAdapter dadapter;
DataSet dset;
PagedDataSource adsource;
string connstring = "database=student;server=.;user=sa;password=wintellect";
int pos;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!IsPostBack)
{
this.ViewState["vs"] = 0;
}
pos = (int)this.ViewState["vs"];
databind();
}
public void databind()
{
dadapter = new SqlDataAdapter("select * from student_detail", connstring);
dset = new DataSet();
adsource = new PagedDataSource();
dadapter.Fill(dset);
adsource.DataSource = dset.Tables[0].DefaultView;
adsource.PageSize = 3;
adsource.AllowPaging = true;
adsource.CurrentPageIndex = pos;
btnfirst.Enabled = !adsource.IsFirstPage;
btnprevious.Enabled = !adsource.IsFirstPage;
btnlast.Enabled = !adsource.IsLastPage;
btnnext.Enabled = !adsource.IsLastPage;
DataList1.DataSource = adsource;
DataList1.DataBind();
}
protected void btnfirst_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pos = 0;
databind();
}
protected void btnprevious_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pos = (int)this.ViewState["vs"];
pos -= 1;
this.ViewState["vs"] = pos;
databind();
}
protected void btnnext_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pos = (int)this.ViewState["vs"];
pos += 1;
this.ViewState["vs"] = pos;
databind();
}
protected void btnlast_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pos = adsource.PageCount - 1;
databind();
}
}
}
Run the application.
Output
![Output]()
It will show 3 records at a time. You can go to the First, Previous, Next, and Last records by clicking the appropriate button.
![Appropriate button]()
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