DataView WebPart Sorting Across Pagination Issue

The Sorting in data view web part (when enabling the "basic list toolbar" checkbox in properties using SharePoint Designer) works for the rows which are currently displayed (i.e. displayed on the page)

To make this work properly, you need to do the following:    <ParameterBinding Name="dvt_sortfield" Location="Postback;Connection" DefaultValue="Modified"/> <ParameterBinding Name="dvt_sortdir" Location="Postback;Connection"  DefaultValue="descending"/> Above i have sorted on the "Modified" column in the descending order.   No need to modify the XSLT. Sorting will not work across pagination as this is to sort list which has huge amount of data and sorting the entire list might take long time. Although, If you would like to sort the entire list, please use the toolbar for sorting option in data view properties.