gridview sorting using javascript to avoid postbacks

Question

Hi i am wondering if there is any way to avoid postbacks up on sorting when clicked on a sortexpression column in a Gridview can someone shed some light on this.. what if i do this with Ajax instead of Javascript? note: am using sqldatasource as datasource here for some reason so data binding is thru IDE not programmatic. thanks in advance. cheers kumar

Suthish Nair · Answer

Lots of Javascript and jquery samples available across web. why don't do a simple search. refer: http://www.reconstrukt.com/ingrid/

Dorababu Meka · Answer

Check this once http://forums.asp.net/p/1495229/3523818.aspx http://www.a2zdotnet.com/View.aspx?Id=106

kumar k · Answer

Hi Murali Thanks for the reply. I am using asp.net 2.0 so no chance of using AJax. Even using Ajax (with new app in 4.0) am seeing Html out of memory: . Am having huge no of records (sometimes 1600) in gridview and trying to sort on a column sometimes by name number...etc. I am not using Paging as per requirement. The above javascript reference is not working for me  it is just hosed .... Can you please let me know more about this...My ultimate goal is to avoid postback in 2.0 (i may also use ajax but html out of memeory error is killing the app). Thanks Kumar

Muralidharan Deenathayalan · Answer

Kumar I found the below article they are doing sorting at client side by using Javascript. Sort gridview without doing postback in asp.net You can do ajax also for sorting. For thisplease refer the below links. http://programming.top54u.com/post/AJAX-GridView-Paging-and-Sorting-using-C-sharp-in-ASP-Net.aspx http://www.ajaxtutorials.com/ajax-tutorials/sorting-gridview-data-with-ajax/ http://aspadvice.com/blogs/azamsharp/archive/2006/09/20/GridView-Property-EnableSortingAndPagingCallbacks.aspx Hope this helps you.