Top 5 Nuget Packages for ASP MVC - X.PagedList

The final entry in this list of nuget awesomness for ASP MVC 5 solutions is:

X.PagedList MVC

Install-Package X.PagedList.Mvc

What does it do?

It pages your data.

Why use it?

So you don’t fetch ludicrous amounts of data and blow up your repositories, and instead return smaller sets of data in pageable format.

How to use it

Controller

public class ContactsController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index(int? page)
    {
        var pageNumber = page ?? 1;
        
        var model = new ContactsIndexViewModel{
            PageTitle = "Contacts",
            OnePageOfProducts = _ContactsService.GetContacts().ToPagedList(pageNumber, 25)
        }

        return View(model);
    }
}

View

@using X.PagedList.Mvc; 

<h1>@Model.PageTitle</h1>
<ul>
    @foreach(var contact in Model.OnePageOfContacts){
        <li>@contact.FullName</li>
    }
</ul>

@Html.PagedListPager(Model.OnePageOfContacts, page => Url.Action("Index", new { page }) )

That’s all there is to it!

Honourable Mentions

There are a bunch of good packages that didn’t make the top 5 and are worth checking out. So if you want to check out even more awesomeness check out:

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Written on January 28, 2018