Testing the ASP.NET Web Page
At this point we have added a DataGrid to the ASP.NET Web page and specified that it be sortable. We have added a function to return the contents of the Books database table in a specified sorted order, and we have created an event handler for the DataGrid's SortCommand event. Whew! Accomplishing all of these tasks took quite a bit of time and explanation, but our hard work has paid off—we now have a sortable DataGrid!
Save the ASP.NET Web page and view it through a browser. When you first load the page, the data will be sorted by the Title column (assuming you did not change the Page_Load event handler). Figure 18.8 shows a screenshot of the ASP.NET Web page when first loaded in a Web browser.
Figure 18.8. The books ...
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