how to pagination razor page? - asp.net

Question

i have a table for saving some ids for send request to web service and save my data to view model and show data in view page with IEnumerable viewmodel.Now i want to have a pagination at the end of my page because i have more than 100 product in my archive page.Now how can i have Pagination for this page??
//CONTROLLER
public ActionResult Archive()
{
var selectspecial = db.ProviderSelections.Where(a =>
a.SpecialSuggestion == true && a.IsActive ==
true).OrderByDescending(a => a.CreateDate).Select(a =>
a.ID).ToList();
var lastitem = selectspecial.Last();
List<string> lst = new List<string>();
for (int i = 0; i < selectspecial.Count; i++)
{
var selectid = selectspecial[i];
lst.Add(selectid.ToString());
}
StringBuilder itemlist = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var item in lst)
{
itemlist.Append(item).Append(",");
}
string id = itemlist.ToString() + lastitem;
WebClient webclient = new WebClient();
webclient.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] =
"application/json;charset=utf-8";
string url = "MYWEBSERVICEURL?pids=" + id;
webclient.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " +
Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes("USERNAME:PASSWORD"));
webclient.Headers.Add("Request-type", "REQUESTTYPE");
string result = webclient.DownloadString(url);
JObject jObject = JObject.Parse(result);
JToken jUser = jObject["X"];
List<BriefDetailsViewModel> briefdetails = new
List<BriefDetailsViewModel>();
foreach (var item in jUser)
{
BriefDetailsViewModel brief = new BriefDetailsViewModel();
brief.address = (string)item["address"];
//OTHER LINES ARE LIKE ABOVE LINE
briefdetails.Add(brief);
}
return View(briefdetails);
}
//Archive.cshtml
#model IEnumerable<ROOT.BriefDetailsViewModel>
<div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12">
#foreach (var item in Model)
{
<div class="col-lg-9 col-md-9 col-sm-8 col-xs-8">
<div class="text TextBox">
#item.description
</div>
</div>
//More Data like this....
}
//PAGINATION BOX
</div>

Answer 1

The best practice by adding pagination feature to your web service to be like this :
string url = "MYWEBSERVICEURL?pids=" + id + "&pageId="+pageId;
Also use page size variable, then you can page your data using LINQ :
example :
int numberOfObjectsPerPage = 10;
var queryResultPage = dataContext.Employees.OrderBy(a=>a.ID)
.Skip(numberOfObjectsPerPage * pageNumber)
.Take(numberOfObjectsPerPage).ToList();
If you cannot update your web service, or you are using external web service you can read the data then page it before return your view :
briefdetails = briefdetails
.Skip(numberOfObjectsPerPage * pageNumber)
.Take(numberOfObjectsPerPage);
return View(briefdetails);
Also in your html you can render something for paging below your table :
//You called it PAGINATION BOX
for(int i=1,i<pageNumber;i++)
{
<a href="#Url.Action("YOUR_ACTION",new {pageId = i})">#i<a/>
}