If you had to do it *now*, I would say try to add filters to the form that you can pass to the where condition of the query that you are using to fill the control and limit the records returned in that way.

I know it doesn't help you now, but in .NET 2.0 (available next year) there will be overloads to the dataadapter.fill command to allow you to page through the result set and only pull down single pages at a time. Here is the link for it: http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/ndp/cpconpagingthroughqueryresult.aspx

You could implement this same functionality now, but you will be doing a lot of work that will be a standard part of .NET soon.


>Hello;
>I wonder how i can "fetch" subset of the dataset?
>
>For example;
>In a “server” application we have a table with 100,000 records, and we want to use MS List View Control to display these records. It works OK.
>User scrolls view by 50% using Scroll Bar and we must calculate approximate position of records to fecth, how ?
>
>Regards.