Question

Can anyone point me to the most efficient, or at this point, any way to do server side paging in Silverlight using an MVC RESTful API layer?

I have a very large overhead call that can hypothetically return thousands upon thousands of complex objects which in turn can contain dozens of complex objects themselves.
I want to limit this to 10 per call using paging.

I’m looking at the Silverlight DataPager and although you can use RIA services for server-side paging, I’m not sure how, if at all, you could incorporate a REST API call.

I was going the route of simply modifying my API call myself to accept a start point and count of records to return, but although this works on the API/server-side, the Silverlight’s DataPager “PageCount” and other items are read-only and I cannot manually set those knowing my dataset count.

Would the only remedy be to continue the way I’m going but create my own UserControl and override that read-only functionality in some way?

Answer 1

I simply had our UX designer create a new paging UI control that I manually manage myself and use my own paging REST API.