Looking for ideas of how to present a large text file within a grid

[Jeff]

I'm asking for ideas.  I have a very large text file which I would like to present within a grid - or another viewer and have it "feel" like a text file.

So here is what I have:
We took a very large text file and reloaded into a table - line by line.  The table would look like this ..
line_number ---- line_value
1--------------------"the small"
2--------------------"red fox"
3--------------------"jumps over the fence"


Here is a challenge - Custom Paging:
This file contains million lines.  Far too many records to just pull out of the db and hand to a grid.  So I need custom paging or chunk/chapter processing.

So Ideas?
Are there any demos that might come close to a neat way to present this data?  We are working to implement grid custom paging but it would be nice to give it a feel of browsing through a file too.

Thanks for the thoughts.

Tim T.

[Tsvetina]

Hi Tim,

You could see how custom paging can be implemented in this online demo:
Grid / Custom Paging

As for appearance, you could use custom styles to completely change the look of RadGrid. A demonstration of this is available here:
Grid / Styling Header, Footer and Pager

All the best,
Tsvetina
the Telerik team