With this post I’ll show you how to create a simple catalog like functionality for your application using RadTileView and RadDataPager. 

We will create a catalog with 10 000 RadTileViewItems distributed in 100 pages and each page will have UI Virtualization. At the end this sample application will look like this:

Demo

We’ll start with a tileview, a datapager

… and a simple business item...

With Q2 2010 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX we introduce built-in support for ASP.NET routing for RadGrid and RadDataPager controls. By setting a few properties you can enable nice SEO friendly urls. Below are the steps that you need to perform to enable routing for RadDataPager in ASP.NET 4.0

1. Create Global.asax file
2. Describe how the route will be rewritten
   
   
3. Set AllowSEOPaging="true" and AllowRouting="true" for RadDataPager. Have in mind that routing can be enabled only in context of SEO paging, i.e. AllowSEOPaging must be set to “true” to enable routing.
4. Set RouteName="RadDataPagerRoutingExample" and RoutePageIndexParameterName="dataPager" depending on the settings in Global.asax.
5. Voila! You have implemented routing in 4 simple steps....

We are glad to announce that the Q1 2010 Release has added another weapon to RadGridView’s growing arsenal of features. This is the brand new RadDataPager control which provides the user interface for paging through a collection of data.

The good news is that RadDataPager can be used to page any collection. It does not depend on RadGridView in any way, so you will be free to use it with the rest of your ItemsControl’s if you chose to do so.

Before you read on, you might want to download the samples solution that I have attached. It contains a sample project for every scenario that...