Question

i am using linq for my connection to the database and this is my first time to display a large amount of data from the database so i don’t how to handle it..can you give me a tip? thanks!

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if(!Page.IsPostBack)

        rebind();
    }

    private void rebind()
    {
        using ( var db = new linqDataContext())
        {
            GridView1.DataSource = db.Orders.Select(p => new { p.OrderID, p.CustomerID, p.ShipName, p.ShipCity }).ToList();
            GridView1.DataBind();
        }
    }

    protected void GridView1_PageIndexChanging(object sender, GridViewPageEventArgs e)
    {
        GridView1.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
        rebind();
    }
}

Answer 1

Tip: Don’t display a lot of data at once in your web application. Use a paging control to retrieve and display only a few rows from the database at a time.