Paging in Entity Framework

Question

In Entity Framework, using LINQ to Entities, database paging is usually done in following manner:

int totalRecords = EntityContext.Context.UserSet.Count;
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Answer 1

ALTER proc [dbo].[GetNames]
    @lastRow bigint,
    @pageSize bigint,
    @totalRowCount bigint output
as
begin

select @totalRowCount = count(*) from _firstNames, _lastNames

select
    FirstName,
    LastName,
    RowNumber
from
(
    select
        fn.[FirstName] as FirstName,
        ln.[Name] as LastName,
        row_number() over( order by FirstName ) as RowNumber
    from
        _firstNames fn, _lastNames ln
) as data
where
    RowNumber between ( @lastRow + 1 ) and ( @lastRow + @pageSize )

end 

There is no way to get this into one call, but this works fast enough.