Paging and Sorting Report Data:
Step 5-Adding Bi-Directional Sorting Support

This step of the VIDEO TUTORIAL will elaborate on how to implement bi directional sorting support to the GridView columns at run time display. Adding sorting to the columns in the GridView control at run time display is very simple, all it takes is to enable the sorting check box from the smart tag menu of the GridView control. This automatically includes a sort expression in the declarative mark up of the web page under consideration and converts the corresponding column headers in the GridView display as hyperlinks. In addition, these hyper links can also be customized using HeaderStyle properties either in the Style.css file or in the GridView.skin files of the project. Finally, the tutorial concludes in demonstrating on how to programmatically sort the data display in the GridView control by assigning the sort property of the GridView control in a click event of a button control. For detailed information and source code for this step, please refer to the original article.