Paging Error :The method 'Skip' is only supported for sorted input in LINQ to Entities. The method 'OrderBy' must be called before the method 'Skip'

Question

I am Doing Paging in MVC on Index Page ..on this Line I got error

return View( employee.ToPagedList(Page ?? 1,3));

here is Index Method

 public ActionResult Index(string searchBy, string search, int? Page, string sortBy)
    {
        ViewBag.SortNameParameter = string.IsNullOrEmpty(sortBy) ? "Name desc"
            : "";

        ViewBag.SortGenderParameter = string.IsNullOrEmpty(sortBy) ? "Gender desc"
            : "Gender";

        var employee = db.Employees.AsQueryable();

        if (searchBy == "Gender")
        {
            employee = employee.Where(x => x.Gender == search || search == null);
        }
        else
        {
            employee = employee.Where(x => x.FUllName .StartsWith(search ) || search == null);
        }

        switch (sortBy)
        {
            case "Name desc":
                employee = employee.OrderByDescending(x => x.FUllName);
                break;

            case "Default":
                employee = employee.OrderBy(x => x.FUllName);
                break;
        }

      return View( employee.ToPagedList(Page ?? 1,3));
    }

I am not using Skip method ... But there is this error :

The method 'Skip' is only supported for sorted input in LINQ to Entities. The method 'OrderBy' must be called before the method 'Skip'.

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and did following changes ...

1.Put employee.Where code before the switch statement:

2.Add a default case in your switch statement, and make it throw. case "Default": throw new ArgumentException("error", sortBy);

3. Use the type IOrderedQueryable.

   IQueryable employee = db.Employees.AsQueryable();

this doesnot solve problem ..
mostly they use to have Skip method .. But i Dont have ... and Other posts query are complex one ..

Please suggest whats missing

Answer 1

You do have a Skip method.

The PagedList added it for you. Check the code out. That's how paging works, Take and Skip.

Also I think your case statement was meant to be

    switch (sortBy)
    {
        case "Name desc":
            employee = employee.OrderByDescending(x => x.FUllName);
            break;

        default: // Not: case "Default"
            employee = employee.OrderBy(x => x.FUllName);
            break;
    }