Creating a simple Pager user control with ASP.NET and C#

The following is a simple user control that will display a Pager functionality for any type of web page that deals with large amount of data that need to be segmented in pages.

This is part of a larger project and perhaps in the future I will present the finished project, but for now this user control can help us organize our data with a data list.

1. Create a new web site project in Visual Studio
2. Add a new Web User control named Pager.
3. In Source View (Asp.Net) write the following code
4. <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Pager.ascx.cs" Inherits="UserControls_Pager" %>
   <p>
   Page
   <asp:Label ID="currentPageLabel" runat="server" />
   of
   <asp:Label ID="howManyPagesLabel" runat="server" />
   
   
   <asp:HyperLink ID="previousLink" runat="server">Previous</asp:HyperLink>
   
   
   <asp:Repeater ID="pagesRepeater" runat="server">
       <ItemTemplate>
           <asp:HyperLink ID="hyperlink" runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("Page") %>' NavigateUrl='<%#Eval("Url") %>' />
       </ItemTemplate>
   </asp:Repeater>
   <asp:HyperLink ID="nextLink" runat="server">Next</asp:HyperLink>
   </p>

Schedule a Windows Task to call an ASP.NET web page - ASP.NET - VB.NET, Windows Task Scheduler

The following is how you can schedule a windows task that can call an ASP.NET web page. Usually we want to schedule task from Windows. I have seen lots of questions regarding this in the past.

The cool thing about Windows task is that you can execute custom jobs to be executed in the server without the need of a user to be logged in.

The following code can be used to call ASPX web pages to run a specific job that needs to execute some sort of logic. The script is written in VB.NET, but the web page can be written with C# as the vbscript only is used to create the call from the server to the page.

The steps are as follow: