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

Try this:

public IEnumerable ListStores(Func sort, bool desc, int page, int pageSize, out int totalRecords)
{
    var context = new TectonicEntities();
    var results = context.Stores;

    totalRecords = results.Count();
    int skipRows = (page - 1) * pageSize;

    if (desc)
        results = results.OrderByDescending(sort);

    return results.Skip(skipRows).Take(pageSize).ToList();
}

in truth, that last .ToList() isn't really necessary as you are returning IEnumerable...

There will be 2 database calls, one for the count and one when the ToList() is executed.