Paging with WCF data service

Question

My question is about how you handle paging with a WCF data service. The way I want to use it, is execute a query (passing page size and current page), and get back the results o

Answer 1

Use Skip and Take to perform client side paging of data from the WCF data service, such as:

var items = (from i in ctx.MyEntities
             select i).Skip(StartIndex).Take(PageSize)

Where StartIndex is the beginning position of the data you want returned and PageSize is the number of elements max to return.

Answer 2

Have a look at the Paging Provider for WCF Data Services here and here

Answer 3

Unfortunately it seems that WCF data services is way too limited, and the solution for me was to switch to a regular WCF service so that I could use full LINQ and define data contracts myself.