Currently I’m trying to put together the VS2008 Solution containing the stuff I’ve written about the last few weeks.
That is… I’m now installing SP2 on my Windows 2008 Virtual Machine, which seems to take forever.
Hopefully I can continue work on the solution tomorrow.
Ok, so I’ve hit one more snag…
When a filter has been set, and a column is clicked to sort, the filter gets lost.
When an SPGridView sorts, it has an empty FilterFieldName.
So, we have to see if we can store this somewhere.
To be continued…
Finally, I have my filtering working!! 
Yesterday while I drove home (about an hours drive), I thought of a different approach to my problem; why not try to handle the stuff while applying the filter. Trick, at least for me, was to figure out how to do this.
I came across some very nice articles when browsing the internet for some information on how to enable filtering and sorting an an SPGridView with a LinqDataSource as datasource. The most usefull one I found is this one from Johan Leino.
However, there are still some things to be done. Read more…
