Using the Grid with Azure Table Storage?

[B E]

Can the Telerik Grid be used with Azure Table Storage (ATS)?  ATS does not support Count, so there's no simple way to know how many entities a table contains.  This makes paging a little tricky.

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[Atanas Korchev]

Hi B E,

The Grid requires Count() in order to support paging properly (to determine the number of pages). If you don't need paging it should work.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
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[B E]

Right now, I'm paging through Azure Table Storage 25 entities at a time with my own solution.  It works fine.  Since there's no Count, I don't know the total number of pages.  That's OK.  Perhaps Telerik could come up with instructions on how to use the Grid in this scenario.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello B E,

Currently we do not support paging without knowing the total number of  records. I am not really sure how paging should work in that case - how to display the total number of pages, how to know when the user has reach the last page etc.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
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[James]

Any update on this yet? I'm looking for a Grid control that supports Azure Tables

[Dadv]

I don't know Azure Table but i can hypothesize :

if you use custom binding (server or ajax) you could make this kind of trick => 

.OnLoad("onLoad"))  
.Pageable(a=>a.PageSize(50).Style(GridPagerStyles.NextPreviousAndDropDown))

function onLoad(e) {
    $('.t-icon.t-arrow-last').parent().hide();
    $('.t-status-text').hide();
}

[GridAction(EnableCustomBinding = true)]
        public ActionResult _CustomBinding(GridCommand command)
        {
            	IEnumerable data = GetData(command);

		int count = Int32.MaxValue;
           
                data = data.Skip((command.Page - 1) * command.PageSize).Take(command.PageSize);
                if (data.Count() < command.PageSize)
                    count = command.Page * command.PageSize - (command.PageSize - data.Count());
            
            	return View(new GridModel { Data = data, Total = count });
        }