I have a custom central admin list and would like to insert it to a custom application page in a way that would make it look exactly like it does if you access the list via its URL - i.e. it should support sorting, filtering, item selection, paging etc.
In my current solution, I bind the list data to SPGridView and it works fine - however, as SPGridView doesn't support auto generation of columns, I have to provide a lot of extra code to handle things like sorting, style, paging, filtering etc. - stuff that works out of the box if I navigate to the list via its SharePoint URL. Another method I found mentioned is first creating a web part and inserting the list there, then showing the web part in my application page - is this the only alternative or is there a more direct way?
