I know how to hook up ajax paging to a grid or a webgrid in asp.net mvc. But how can I accomplish ajax paging, using custom paging for large data sets for another format outside of a table grid.
Is that even possible using an mvc helper or mvc.pagedlist?
I used to be a webforms guys and it was so easy to hook up a listview where you could use divs to create whatever layout you want for individual items, you could then hook up a datapage and wrap it all in an update panel.
Basically I want a list of items that I can page through via ajax but with having large data sets I can just pull down all the items and page via jquery, I need to do custom paging on the server side and only return the items for a specific page.
Yes, but of course you have to coordinate the client-side requests with server-side actions to handle the actual data paging. In that sense, it’s not as simple as as WebForms, but it’s still possible.
Here’s an example of using PagedList to render each returned item in its own table, separated by horizontal rules. You should easily be able to modify the HTML in the example to produce any rendering you want.