Question

I have been trying to get the following:

I have a table with 20 elements in it. I’m trying to write a method that gets a number of records, with some kind of an offset.

For example: I would like to get 5 elements, starting from the 6th one… which means I’d like to have record nr 6,7,8,9 and 10.

Those numbers are not a column or id in the table! I would like to sort the table in a specific way with the result id’s get shuffled.

This is my query so far:

project1_category[] categories = db.project1_categories.Select(c => c)
                                                       .OrderBy(c => c.Category)
                                                       .ToArray();

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You need to use Skip and Take:

project1_category[] categories = db.project1_categories.OrderBy(c => c.Category)
                                                       .Skip(5)
                                                       .Take(5)
                                                       .ToArray();