Question

I’m in the process of recreating our website using MVC3. I can not wrap my head around a solution to reproduce some old site functionality.

Our current site displays a parcel and displays two buttons, nextID, previousID each of those buttons returns a url string from a call to a function (ASP Classic) that looks like this.

Function GetNextID()

    Dim Temp

    SQLStmt.CommandText = "SELECT AccountNumber FROM " & DBOwner & "DataProperty Where cardnumber=1 and NBC <> 'TPMH' and LUC <> '6832' and closed = 0 and ParcelID > '" & PropertyID & "' order by ParcelID asc"

    RSProp.Open SQLStmt

    If Not RSProp.EOF Then
        Temp = RSProp("AccountNumber")
    Else
        Temp = ""
    End If

    RSProp.Close    

    GetNextID = Temp

End Function 'GetNextID

Is there a better way to do this? Is there a way to page data at the detail level inherently designed in MVC3?

What I don’t want to do is this…

ViewResult Show(string parcelId)
{
  if(Request["next"] == "next")
    return _service.GetNextId(parcelId);
  if(Request["prev"] == "prev")
   return _service.GetPrevId(parcelId);
   //Or return this parcel
   return _service.getProperty(parcelId);
}

Answer 1

I’m going to do this in the viewModel I’ve decided.

I’ll just have a property on the ViewModel, .PriorId and .NextId