PagedList using LINQ Skip and Take, but show paging using Count of results

Question

I am trying to display a filtered list of of products, based on Category filter and ItemsPerPage but I\'m having some issues when trying to use it with PagedList.

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Answer 1

I had the exactly same problem and I ended up using StaticPagedList. You can do something like this

public ViewResult List(int page =1, string category =null)
{
    if (category != null) this.CurrentCategory = category;

    var products = repository.Products
                   .Where(p => this.CurrentCategory == null || p.Category == this.CurrentCategory)
                   .OrderBy(p => p.ProductID)
                   .Skip((page -1) * PageSize)
                   .Take(PageSize);

var count = repository.Products
                   .Where(p => this.CurrentCategory == null || p.Category == this.CurrentCategory).Count();

var resultAsPagedList = new StaticPagedList(products, page, PageSize, count);

    return View(resultAsPagedList);
}

as for the view, you just need to replace the model type

@model StaticPagedList