title: Paged table with ASP.NET MVC and AJAX
body: <p>I'm looking for good patterns for implementing a paged table of results in ASP.NET MVC with sorting, filtering, and paging provided via AJAX.  It seems to me that I should have my controller actions provide only the data and not mark up to maintain the separation of concerns -- so the Ajax callback would provide new table data and pager settings which the client would use to re-render the table.  Alternatively, I could use have the controller return a partial view that I simply replace inside a container on the page.</p>
  
  <p>I'm new to the ASP.NET MVC world, so I'd be interested in hearing opinions and other alternatives as well.</p>
  
  <p>How would you go about doing this?</p>
  
  <p>I'm also interested in hearing about jquery table plugins that work well with Ajax.</p>