How do you implement paging in ASP.NET MVC?

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Kevin Pang picture Kevin Pang · Nov 15, 2008 · Viewed 15.9k times · Source

Currently, I'm using a strategy found on many blog posts. Basically, the URL contains the page number (e.g. /Users/List/5 will give you the users on page 5 of your paged list of users). However, I'm not running into a situation where one page must list two separate paged lists. How do I go about doing this using ASP.NET MVC? Do I simply provide two url parameters (e.g. /Users/List?page1=1&page2=2)? Is there a better way by using partial views?

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Ben Scheirman picture Ben Scheirman · Nov 15, 2008

Ignoring routes for just a minute, you'll just keep the state of the 2 different pages in the URL as querystring parameters.

mysite.com/foo?list1page=2&list2page=8

Then you build the data/pagers accordingly. The pager links will just update the url.

You can get creative with routes to create more friendly URLs, but I think querystring params are perfectly acceptable here.

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