Manipulating Summary List's Contents

Displaying a summary list is one thing, but it only partly fulfills the objective of helping the user find the record(s) that they are after. This is particularly relevant when the list contains many items, especially if they aren't sorted in such a manner to help the user in this task. Therefore, summary lists typically provide a number of data manipulation actions that the user can apply to the list in order to browse it more efficiently, including the following:

  • Filtering
  • Sorting
  • Grouping
  • Paging

In this section, we'll look at how you implement each of these data manipulation actions for each of the key scenarios we're addressing in this chapter—that is, when you are using the DomainDataSource control ...

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