Will_paginate for ASP.NET MVC

Question

I was run across issue to paging my list object in asp.net mvc where my object is simply load by LINQ-to-SQL.

Is it some kinds of will_paginates command?

in rails, i can do like

Users.paginate(:all, :page => 1, :page_size => 20)

Answer 1

In Linq this would be

Users.Skip(pageSize*page).Take(pageSize)

This would assume zero based counting.

Answer 2

Check out - http://pagedlist.codeplex.com/

Will create an extension method ToPagedList which can be used like so:

 using PagedList;

 var firstPage = list.ToPagedList(0, 20); // first page, page size = 20

 Console.WriteLine("Is first page? {0}", firstPage.IsFirstPage); // true
 Console.WriteLine("Is last page? {0}", firstPage.IsLastPage); // false
 Console.WriteLine("First value on page? {0}", firstPage[0]); // 1
 Console.WriteLine();

Answer 3

No there is not, but you should check out this blog post by Rob Conery that shows you a good way to implement it. http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/aspnet-mvc-pagedlistt/