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The Gridview Control in ASP.NET has built in paging support. But here are a few disadvantages of using the built in paging

• It fetches all the records from the database even when we need only 10 records per page. This is quite inefficient when your tables have thousands of records
• The paging controls uses javascript which makes the pages inaccessible to search engine.

I looked around the net for solutions to these problems. There were a few solutions and some of them even costs upwards of $100 but the best I found was a free paging control by Bidel Akbari at codeproject

Here are the main features of his paging control

• Very easy to install and use.
• Uses server side paging so that only the required few rows are returned from the database
• Search engine friendly paging. The first version was supposed to use query strings for paging which is the way paging should work. However in the latest version 2.8 , it uses javascript for paging and a hidden div with hyperinks so that search engines can find the inner pages.
• You can use the paging control with the Repeater and Datalist controls
• There are a variety of properties to change the appearance of the control. He has also made two slick skins for the control

Overall a great and extremely useful control . You can see a demo of the control here in my site freedownloadablefonts.net . You can find more info and download the control here

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