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PagedList.Mvc is one of many good paging and sorting packages for ASP.NET MVC, in the below simple example I'm gonna implement it for content (posts) of a blog post, install the PagedList.MVC via Nuget and take a look at this code. This is an action which returns blog posts:

 

       public ActionResult List(int? page)
        {
            var posts = _blogService.GetAllBlogPosts();
            var pageNumber = page ?? 1;
            var onePageOfPosts = posts.ToPagedList(pageNumber, 10);
            ViewBag.OnePageOfPosts = onePageOfPosts;
            return View(posts);
        }

 

 I just defined the OnePageOfPosts  ViewBag and onePageOfPosts.  now in the view, you have to add a line of code:

 

@using PagedList
@using PagedList.Mvc;
@model IEnumerable<BlogViewModel>
@{
      ViewBag.Title = "List";
   }
@foreach (var item in Model)
 {
           @Html.ActionLink(item.Title, "Post", "Blog", new { postId = item.PostId, urlSlug = item.UrlSlug }, null)
           @Html.DisplayTextFor(blog => item.Body)
  }

@Html.PagedListPager((IPagedList)ViewBag.OnePageOfPosts, page => Url.Action("List", new { page }) )

 

if you run this piece of code, you should have something like this in the output:

 

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