Tuesday 14 October 2008

Always set AutoPage to true in LinqDataSource

If you are binding a control to a LinqDataSource, always set the AutoPage property on the LinqDataSource to true (AutoPage=“true”) if you have enabled paging on the data-bound control. Without the AutoPage option set, the LinqDataSource will pull back all records in the data source every time a page is browsed. Not only is this inefficient and not scalable, but it allows the client to determine the level of resources required, which is not good practice.

<asp:LinqDataSource ID="LinqDataSource1" runat="server"
ContextTypeName="MyDataContext" TableName="MyTable" AutoPage="true"></asp:LinqDataSource>

Sadly, the AutoPage option doesn’t seem to be available in other DataSource objects, so a manual implementation is necessary for these.

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