Sexy DataTables with for Asp.Net MVC

Just thought I’d pass this little gem on as it’s saved me a lot of time (eventually) and given me a much more finished solution in the end than my hacked together attempt.  Whilst trying to produce a simple reporting app I required a table view along with pagination, sorting and  search, I went about trying to produce each individual element in MVC and had come up with a half-baked solution but it didn’t “smell right”.  Anyway whilst surfing t’interweb I came across this tutorial

http://blogs.msdn.com/paulwhit/archive/2009/03/28/walkthrough-full-example-of-using-mvccontrib-grid-with-jquery-datatable.aspx

It was a really simple way to create the exact table I wanted with out using Grids etc..  The only issue I had came from using MVCContrib the version I used needed MVC 2 so I upgraded the project by starting a fresh and cutting out a load of controllers and views etc.  All in all a much more finished attempt thanks to the great work of Allan Jardine and the MVCContrib guys.

Resources:

http://www.codeplex.com/MVCContrib

http://www.datatables.net

http://www.asp.net/mvc/