Comments by SoftwareMonkeys (Top 11 by date)

Good tip. Now I'm creating a RavenDB provider for the data management system I am using that approach. I wasn't too familiar with linq back when I wrote the original approach. Actually I may have even written it originally before linq was available :p

Hmmm good question. I'll have to look into that.

My mistake I figured it was all fairly self explanatory so I skimped on the details.
The goal is to be able to hold all the paging related info on a single object and, while it's at it, provide a helper function for you to use if you want to.
Before this I was passing multiple paging properties into my data layer (index, size) and then had to figure out how to return the absolute total as required by the ASP.NET grid controls.
Putting the paging info into an object prevents the order of the parameters from being mixed up and provides a useful way to return the absolute total back to the UI layer from the data layer.
I use db4o and I can loop through the IObjectSet and load only items those within the current page, rather than loading all of them. This saves the performance hit of loading all items, even the ones not on the desired page.
As with most for loops what I have to work with is the position in the list/loop, which is the integer passed to the IsInPage function. The return value tells you when to load the record and include it in the output.
The PagingLocation class and this approach can be used with any kind of record set, or from any collection of objects. Just look at the GetPage function to see how that's done. Swap the IObjectSet for an array, or a collection, or something.
If you can suggest ways to simplify the paging in the SiteStarter project I'm all ears.
I totally agree there are plenty of other ways to store data, access data, etc. and depending on how you do it you may do paging in a way that's completely incompatible with this. There's always different ways to do things. But there are plenty of cases when the PagingLocation can make it simple to extract just a page of items out of a larger list of items.

Anyone got a link to an example of how to do it in jquery? I'm curious to compare.

Do you mean the build order? I build contracts first, then entities, then business, then others that use them such as web/presentation tier.
Does that answer your question?

Thanks for the tip. Now I have this solution it's just a matter of copy and paste into any project I want to use it so no typing required really. But I should look into jquery anyway just to see the difference in the approach and the amount of code.
Cheers