Hi, I need to comeback to blogging anyhow, since it was too long break. Hence yesterday i decided to start blogging again, and thought of this topic. When Microsoft shipped GridView control with Asp.net, it came with lot of new functionality, but it also lacking of existing functionality like 'VirtualCount' property which was available with DataGrid but not with GridView. Since because of this it is very much difficult to implement Custom Paging with Grid View. Now what is custom paging and default paging? To answer this question i will take an example. I need to display records on a page in tabular format, with paging and sorting. Well if you go with default paging and default sorting your development work is easy. But with it there is a drawback. - It is grid view control which decides what records to display and sorted by which column. So for that it need complete set of all records. Suppose if you want to display only 25 records, a...