ROW_NUMBER() and nhibernate - finding an item's page

Question

given a query in the form of an ICriteria object, I would like to use NHibernate (by means of a projection?) to find an element\'s order, in a manner equivalent to using

Answer 1

ICriteria has this 2 functions:

 SetFirstResult()

and

 SetMaxResults()

which transform your SQL statement into using ROW_NUMBER (in sql server) or limit in MySql.

So if you want 25 records on the third page you could use:

 .SetFirstResult(2*25) 
 .SetMaxResults(25)