[Solved] Retain filter settings across requests

[Jann]

Did you ever wonder how you could achieve ins erver binding mode that filter and sorting settings for the grid are retained across edit operations? Here is my solution for it:

public static class MvcHelpers
{
    public static void ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> items, Action<T> action)
    {
        foreach (T item in items)
        {
            action(item);
        }
    }

     private static NameValueCollection ExtractGridParameters(NameValueCollection aParams)
    {
        Contract.Requires(aParams != null);
        var lRelevantKeys = aParams.AllKeys
                                .Where(i => i.EndsWith("-filter") ||
                                      i.EndsWith("-page") ||
                                      i.EndsWith("-orderBy"));

       var result = new NameValueCollection();
       lRelevantKeys.ForEach(i => result.Add(i, aParams[i]));
       return result;
        }

    public static RedirectToRouteResult WithGridSettings(this RedirectToRouteResult result, NameValueCollection aParams)
    {
        ExtractGridParameters(aParams).AllKeys.ForEach(e => result.RouteValues.Add(e, aParams[e]));

        return result;
    }
}

Then instead of

return RedirectToAction("Index");

you do

RedirectToAction("Index").WithGridSettings(Request.QueryString);

I hope this is useful to someone.
Please feel free to make suggestions on how to make this better.