A few days ago, Craig Stuntz reported an interesting observation: when the first page is returned, the class performs a Skip(0). Suprisingly, this is not free. With that in mind, I set out to correct that issue as well as incorporate a few changes I’ve made over the past year. The result is nearly identical to the last posted version, just a bit more readable. Additionally…

• The source is now available on CodePlex: http://pagedlist.codeplex.com. This should make finding and downloading the code easier than finding the correct blog entry on some dude’s blog.
• I have posted a release-compiled, XML commented, signed assembly on CodePlex. I got tired of having to copy the source into multiple projects and finding a place to put it in that project’s taxonomy.
• Further incremental changes can be found in the Change Log on the CodePlex project site.

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IPagedList<T>.cs

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace PagedList
{
	public interface IPagedList<T> : IList<T>
	{
		int PageCount { get; }
		int TotalItemCount { get; }
		int PageIndex { get; }
		int PageNumber { get; }
		int PageSize { get; }
		bool HasPreviousPage { get; }
		bool HasNextPage { get; }
		bool IsFirstPage { get; }
		bool IsLastPage { get; }
	}
}

PagedList<T>.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace PagedList
{
	public class PagedList<T> : List<T>, IPagedList<T>
	{
		public PagedList(IEnumerable<T> superset, int index, int pageSize)
		{
			// set source to blank list if superset is null to prevent exceptions
			var source = superset == null
			                      	? new List<T>().AsQueryable()
									: superset.AsQueryable();

			TotalItemCount = source.Count();
			PageSize = pageSize;
			PageIndex = index;
			if (TotalItemCount > 0)
				PageCount = (int) Math.Ceiling(TotalItemCount/(double) PageSize);
			else
				PageCount = 0;

			if (index < 0)
				throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("index", index, "PageIndex cannot be below 0.");
			if (pageSize < 1)
				throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("pageSize", pageSize, "PageSize cannot be less than 1.");

			// add items to internal list
			if (TotalItemCount > 0)
				if (index == 0)
					AddRange(source.Take(pageSize).ToList());
				else
					AddRange(source.Skip((index) * pageSize).Take(pageSize).ToList());
		}

		public int PageCount { get; private set; }
		public int TotalItemCount { get; private set; }
		public int PageIndex { get; private set; }
		public int PageSize { get; private set; }

		public int PageNumber
		{
			get { return PageIndex + 1; }
		}

		public bool HasPreviousPage
		{
			get { return PageIndex > 0; }
		}

		public bool HasNextPage
		{
			get { return PageIndex < (PageCount - 1); }
		}

		public bool IsFirstPage
		{
			get { return PageIndex <= 0; }
		}

		public bool IsLastPage
		{
			get { return PageIndex >= (PageCount - 1); }
		}
	}
}

PagedListExtensions.cs

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace PagedList
{
	public static class PagedListExtensions
	{
		public static IPagedList<T> ToPagedList<T>(this IEnumerable<T> superset, int index, int pageSize)
		{
			return new PagedList<T>(superset, index, pageSize);
		}
	}
}

PagedListFacts.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Xunit;
using Xunit.Extensions;

namespace PagedList.Tests
{
	public class PagedListFacts
	{
		[Fact]
		public void Null_Data_Set_Doesnt_Throw_Exception()
		{
			//act
			Assert.ThrowsDelegate act = () => new PagedList<object>(null, 0, 10);

			//assert
			Assert.DoesNotThrow(act);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void PageIndex_Below_Zero_Throws_ArgumentOutOfRange()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3};

			//act
			Assert.ThrowsDelegate act = () => data.ToPagedList(-1, 1);

			//assert
			Assert.Throws<ArgumentOutOfRangeException>(act);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void PageIndex_Above_RecordCount_Returns_Empty_List()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(2, 3);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(0, pagedList.Count);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void PageSize_Below_One_Throws_ArgumentOutOfRange()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3};

			//act
			Assert.ThrowsDelegate act = () => data.ToPagedList(0, 0);

			//assert
			Assert.Throws<ArgumentOutOfRangeException>(act);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void Null_Data_Set_Doesnt_Return_Null()
		{
			//act
			var pagedList = new PagedList<object>(null, 0, 10);

			//assert
			Assert.NotNull(pagedList);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void Null_Data_Set_Returns_Zero_Pages()
		{
			//act
			var pagedList = new PagedList<object>(null, 0, 10);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(0, pagedList.PageCount);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void Zero_Item_Data_Set_Returns_Zero_Pages()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new List<object>();

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(0, 10);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(0, pagedList.PageCount);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void DataSet_Of_One_Through_Five_PageSize_Of_Two_PageIndex_Of_One_First_Item_Is_Three()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(1, 2);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(3, pagedList[0]);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void TotalCount_Is_Preserved()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(1, 2);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(5, pagedList.TotalItemCount);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void PageIndex_Is_Preserved()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(1, 2);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(1, pagedList.PageIndex);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void PageSize_Is_Preserved()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(1, 2);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(2, pagedList.PageSize);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void Data_Is_Filtered_By_PageSize()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(1, 2);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(2, pagedList.Count);

			//### related test below

			//act
			pagedList = data.ToPagedList(2, 2);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(1, pagedList.Count);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void DataSet_OneThroughSix_PageSize_Three_PageIndex_Zero_FirstValue_Is_One()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(0, 3);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(1, pagedList[0]);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void DataSet_OneThroughThree_PageSize_One_PageIndex_Two_HasNextPage_False()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(2, 1);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(false, pagedList.HasNextPage);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void DataSet_OneThroughThree_PageSize_One_PageIndex_Two_IsLastPage_True()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] {1, 2, 3};

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(2, 1);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(true, pagedList.IsLastPage);
		}

		[Fact]
		public void DataSet_OneAndTwo_PageSize_One_PageIndex_One_FirstValue_Is_Two()
		{
			//arrange
			var data = new[] { 1, 2 };

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(1, 1);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(2, pagedList[0]);
		}

		[Theory]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 0, 1)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 1, 2)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 2, 3)]
		public void Theory_PageNumber_Is_PageIndex_Plus_One(int[] integers, int pageIndex, int expectedPageNumber)
		{
			//arrange
			var data = integers;

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(pageIndex, 1);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(expectedPageNumber, pagedList.PageNumber);
		}

		[Theory]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 0, 1, false, true)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 1, 1, true, true)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 2, 1, true, false)]
		public void Theory_HasPreviousPage_And_HasNextPage_Are_Correct(int[] integers, int pageIndex, int pageSize,
		                                                               bool expectedHasPrevious, bool expectedHasNext)
		{
			//arrange
			var data = integers;

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(pageIndex, pageSize);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(expectedHasPrevious, pagedList.HasPreviousPage);
			Assert.Equal(expectedHasNext, pagedList.HasNextPage);
		}

		[Theory]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 0, 1, true, false)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 1, 1, false, false)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 2, 1, false, true)]
		public void Theory_IsFirstPage_And_IsLastPage_Are_Correct(int[] integers, int pageIndex, int pageSize,
		                                                          bool expectedIsFirstPage, bool expectedIsLastPage)
		{
			//arrange
			var data = integers;

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(pageIndex, pageSize);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(expectedIsFirstPage, pagedList.IsFirstPage);
			Assert.Equal(expectedIsLastPage, pagedList.IsLastPage);
		}

		[Theory]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 1, 3)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 3, 1)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1}, 1, 1)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3}, 2, 2)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3, 4}, 2, 2)]
		[InlineData(new[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, 2, 3)]
		public void Theory_PageCount_Is_Correct(int[] integers, int pageSize, int expectedNumberOfPages)
		{
			//arrange
			var data = integers;

			//act
			var pagedList = data.ToPagedList(0, pageSize);

			//assert
			Assert.Equal(expectedNumberOfPages, pagedList.PageCount);
		}
	}
}

1. Publish the source code for Sandcastle and revive this project in Codeplex

2. Migrate sandcastle to MSDN Code gallery at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com

I for one would love to see Sandcastle released as an open source project on CodePlex. It seems to me that Microsoft has had a great deal of success lately with releasing the MVC Framework as an open source project and I hope that they continue the trend. If you have used Sandcastle or foresee the need to have automatic code documentation generation on a project in the future, please do not hesitate to leave a comment letting the powers that be know how you feel.

With that in mind I set out to update Rory’s code. Not that there was anything wrong with it in the first place, of course (this is where I try to tactfully avoid being drawn as a jerkasaurus in one of Rory’s comics), but Rory did whip the code up for a PADNUG meeting and that was about 3.5 million years ago (give or take many orders of magnitude). It was time to bring the CssHandler into 2007! Conveniently right before 2008.

Lo and behold, someone else had beat me to it. Gabe Moothart had already uploaded the CssHandler to CodePlex, and even improved upon it. While Rory’s code originally only allowed variable declarations & references and stripped comments, Gabe’s version also resolved application-relative paths (e.g.: “~/blah/blah.gif”) into browser friendly paths. I had further goals in mind though, and Gabe was kind enough to add me onto the project.

With my updates complete, I am now proud to present…

CssHandler 1.0

Features:

• Define variables for later reference.
• Resolve application relative paths.
• Only link to one CSS file from your HTML page. Let the CssHandler combine additional CSS files at runtime to limit HTTP connections and share variable definitions across files.
• All comments are stripped before render.
• Most white-space is stripped before render.
• HttpHandler can be mapped to *.css or can be referenced as CssHandler.axd and passed a CSS file in the query string.

Bugs fixed:

• The @define{…} block is no longer sent down to the client.
• Similarly named variables no longer present a problem.

Example:

The HTML references “styles.css”, which looks like:

As seen above, “styles.css” references “styles2.css” via the @import statement, which looks like:

The CssHandler then:

1. Intercepts the browser’s request for “styles.css”.
2. Resolves the two URLs that are using application relative paths.
3. Replaces the @import directive with the text from “styles2.css”.
4. Strips all comments from the CSS.
5. Replaces all referenced variables with their defined values.
6. Compresses most of the CSS’s white-space.
7. Renders the following to the browser:

I hope you find it as useful as I have. Many thanks to Rory Blyth and Gabe Moothart. Hopefully CSS4 will add variables and we’ll never have to use this again!

Visit the project’s CodePlex site to download.

Update (Dec. 2, 2007): Rory has posted and given his blessing, so to speak. Thanks Rory!