I recently had to convert a ColdFusion application to ASP.NET MVC 5 application.
As I am fairly new to ASP.NET, this post was a time saver:
https://echosteg.com/jquery-datatables-asp.net-mvc5-server-side
This project uses samples of the original code created by Marien Monnier (French to English):
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.goood.pro%2F2014%2F11%2F21%2Fmvc-utilisation-de-jquery-datatables-en-mode-serveur%2F&edit-text=