[Solved] Request: Bind to ADO.NET Data Service Entity

[Corey Gaudin]

I have a request for this control to allow it to load in millions of rows and be useful. If the Grid itself could bind straight to a ADO.NET DataService Async-ly it would allow us to bind to an entity and as scrolling it could dynamically load in (pop-in) the data being requested and only pull in a specified amount at any one time. This would keep us from having to manually handle pulling in chunks of data and handling paging on our own. As it is, even if you had paging built into the control, it wouldnt do much good since we would still have to pull down all of the data from the datasource and let your grid page through it all. The optimal way to handle this would be for the grid to request the amount it needs and the chunck that it needs.

[Hristo Deshev]

Hello Corey,

Thanks for the suggestion! Interestingly enough, we have been experimenting internally with the idea, and we are definitely looking into providing this functionality. I can't say much at the moment, let alone commit to a time frame, and I hope that just saying that we are working on the problem is enough.

Greetings,
Hristo Deshev
the Telerik team

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