Entity Framework/Linq to SQL: Skip & Take

Question

Just curious as to how Skip & Take are supposed to work. I\'m getting the results I want to see on the client side, but when I hook up the AnjLab SQL Profiler and look a

Answer 1

The following works and accomplishes the simplicity I was looking for:

public IEnumerable ListStores(Expression> sort, bool desc, int page, int pageSize, out int totalRecords)
{
    List stores = new List();
    using (var context = new TectonicEntities())
    {
        totalRecords = context.Stores.Count();
        int skipRows = (page - 1) * pageSize;
        if (desc)
            stores = context.Stores.OrderByDescending(sort).Skip(skipRows).Take(pageSize).ToList();
        else
            stores = context.Stores.OrderBy(sort).Skip(skipRows).Take(pageSize).ToList();
    }
    return stores;
}

The main thing that fixed it for me was changing the Func sort parameter to:

Expression> sort