I&#39;m new to MVC, and am not following how you&#39;d do paging and sorting on a grid.  I&#39;m used to using the asp.Net GridView control with an ObjectDataSource pointed at objects in our business layer - and in that case the ODS handles all of the paging &amp; sorting using the methods that our ORM generates on the objects.


I&#39;ve looked at using the same ORM with MVC - and things work out fine there - i just loop thru the collections to build the table on the page - but without the ODS to handle the paging &amp; sorting, i&#39;m confused as to how I&#39;d handle that.  Would I have a separate controller for the paging and sorting? 

I understand that I need to roll my own - but where do I start?  I&#39;ve created a CustomerController, and a view that displays a table of customers that looks like below - and I want to sort on FirstName or LastName columns.  My Model has a Sort() method on it that&#39;ll take a string sort expression in the format that would be used by a GridView/ODS pair.  Would I create a new Action on my CustomerController called Sort, and put an ActionLink in my header?

        &lt;table&gt;
        &lt;tr&gt;
            &lt;th&gt;
                First Name
            &lt;/th&gt;
            &lt;th&gt;
                Last Name
            &lt;/th&gt;
        &lt;/tr&gt;
        &lt;% foreach (var item in Model)
           { %&gt;
        &lt;tr&gt;
            &lt;td&gt;
                &lt;%= Html.Encode(item.FirstName) %&gt;
            &lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;td&gt;
                &lt;%= Html.Encode(item.LastName) %&gt;
            &lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;/tr&gt;
        &lt;% } %&gt;
    &lt;/table&gt;


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