Does asp.net have this data bar?

Raithlin

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But still. Who scrolls thru pages & pages of data? Except maybe sequential data like this thread. But not rows in a DB. Give the user an interactive Search function and filters that make sense for that type of data. If you build your search well, then the user will find the row he wants within 2 to 4 keystrokes.
Most devs forget that over the life of an app the list will grow to 100K/millions of rows. You are NOT going to use the paging. Trust me.

When developing, you use a few lines or at most a 100 then the paging work ok (still terrible UX though). But in the wild it is a different story.

My advice: don't use it. Do it properly
I hear you, and I use this and other methods for large lists. However, we also have admin pages where the row count is reasonably small throughout the lifetime of the application. Something like this could be used as a drop in control for those use cases.

Look, there is no magic solution for all use cases. I know of RAD developers that create great solutions using drag and drop controls, though I don't do it myself. I maintain that this could be a good solution for many developers.
 
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