Apologies in advance, this question was raised before, but the thread it was posted by another user appears to have gone cold. I have the following situation:
Neil
Hi,
You can use the WebDropDown control ASP.NET AJAX control (new in 2009.1) to achieve this functionality.
There paging and filtering work together independently, so you can filter (by editing the text), and page at the same time.
Apart from paging there is LoadOnDemand, which allows you to scroll down and new data is appended to the existing data.
Hope this helps,
Angel