Don't get suckered when buying .Net components...

Ok, I finally clicked on one of those adds up in the boxes above to see what this paging control was. Here is the link:
http://www.activeup.com/products/com...s/activepager/

Here is what it offers:
Add a powerful paging tool to your DataGrid in one line of code.
Page any list control (DataList, Repeater, ...) easily.
Includes record count, current page, total pages, and more.
Navigation includes previous/next page, first/last page, numeric paging, drop down selector and more.
Full customization of the appearance using format styles.
Utilizes the .NET event model.
Culture independent.
Full source code available.
Numerous additional features.

Ok, now here it is folks, you can try it out here:
http://www.activeup.com/products/com..._PostBack.aspx
Go ahead, go through the different pages of it, then hit the back button! OHHHH (Page has expired), and they are selling this for over 100 dollars!

Folks, I am here to say that this product isn't even close to worth the money. You can do everything it can do with code that won't take that long to do. Plus you don't get the "Page has expired" error. It took me 30 minutes to get paging set up with all the datagrids built in paging functionality, that includes writing the stored proceedures. It will probably take you just about the same time to figure out how the component works...but you will also have true paging that doesn't give you an error when you go back.

I can't stand this, people are going to be suckered into buying this, when they can do with the tools that MS included with the datagrid itself..... Makes me mad.

I just want everyone to be sure when buying .Net controls. It seems that everyone out there is trying to get away with selling something you can easily do yourself with the built in tools and components for free. Ask the question here before going and buying a component.

Done venting.

I just tried it, and unless they saw your post and fixed it, I did not get the page expired message when I click the back button. Paging is fairly easy to implement though.

That is funny, now it doesn't do it for me either...lol.

Ok, point still remains though, this component is so easy to bypass because the functionality is built in to the datagrid.

Ill tell you a really good pay control suite: Infragisitics.com

The stuff you can do with their Datagrid and other controls is excellent. The hierarchal drop down and in grid editing is pretty sweet.