What is the best method to paginate a C# list without using LINQ?

Question

I need to paginate a C# List<> without using LINQ since I'm using .NET framework 3.0. What is the best way to do this?

What I need to do is read a list of files from a folder and display them in a gridview with pagination.

Answer 1

You could try using a GetRange operation, I suppose if this is a requirement. Try something like:

List<Foo> foos = new List<Foo>();
var items = foos.GetRange(0, 5);

So that'd get the first 5 elements, you'd obviously want to grab as many elements as you wanted. Starting from (count + element) next time around.