[Firebird-net-provider] Questions about the .NET Data provider

[Alan M. <al...@me...>]

Carlos,
Can you tell me:...
The ASP.NET coponents include a datagrid (much like the old datagrid for
ASP) but it now sports a page numbering navigation bar (instead on the old
first, last, previous, next links)
I'm not sure how the old one handled this in terms of the query and paging
but I suspect that even with large queries, the component, in conjunction
with the recordset object would retrieve all records in the query, then page
down/up to the required start point for the page control, then render the
records required for the page. Obviously this is quite a heavy solution for
larger datasets/queries. I have to suspect this to be so since the old ODBC
drivers and the old IB (up to 6.0) never had the FIRST and SKIP commands.

Now that FB has the FIRST and SKIP commands, will the ASP.NET provider be
able to use them for the purpose of efficiently delivering page-sized
recordsets to this new grid control? Is there another way it does this
efficiently? Is there something I am missing?

Thanks
Alan McDonald
PS - glad to see you are back on line - thanks to Sean - perhaps contact me
offline - maybe there is something else you need which I might be able to
provide you.