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Skip Operator Using LINQ
Today, in this article let’s play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in LINQ.
Introduction
Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in LINQ.
Question: What is skip operator?
In simple terms "It provides flexibility to skip and pull out the requested amount of records with the help of the skip operator in LINQ"
Step 1: Create a new "ASP.NET Web Application", as in:
Step 2: The design of the Employee table looks like this:
Step 3: The complete code of WebForm1.aspx looks like this:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="LINQInnerJoinApp._Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<center>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Skip Operator using LINQ" Font-Bold="true"
Font-Size="Large" Font-Names="Verdana" ForeColor="Maroon"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Select Data" Font-Names="Verdana" Width="213px"
BackColor="Orange" Font-Bold="True" OnClick="Button1_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<br />
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" BackColor="LightGoldenrodYellow" BorderColor="Tan"
BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="2" EnableModelValidation="True" ForeColor="Black"
GridLines="None" AutoGenerateColumns="False">
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="PaleGoldenrod"></AlternatingRowStyle>
<FooterStyle BackColor="Tan"></FooterStyle>
<HeaderStyle BackColor="Tan" Font-Bold="True"></HeaderStyle>
<PagerStyle HorizontalAlign="Center" BackColor="PaleGoldenrod" ForeColor="DarkSlateBlue">
</PagerStyle>
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="DarkSlateBlue" ForeColor="GhostWhite"></SelectedRowStyle>
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="First Name" ReadOnly="true" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="LastName" HeaderText="Last Name" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="Age" HeaderText="Age" />
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</center>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Step 4: The complete code of WebForm1.aspx.cs looks like this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;namespace LINQInnerJoinApp
{
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var query = objEntities.Employee.ToList().Skip(3);
GridView1.DataSource = query;
GridView1.DataBind();
}
#region Instance MembersCompanyEntities objEntities = new CompanyEntities();
#endregion
}
}
Step 5: The output of the application looks like this:
Step 6: The results retrieved output of the application looks like this:
