Just a quick note, and not an answer to your question:

 If you are creating an image gallery, you should take look at the existing free module at Epicode. Have a look here:
https://www.coderesort.com/p/epicode/wiki/PictureGallery

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Lars Øyvind Bodahl
www.epinova.no 

The module includes code to implement pagination and it uses a repeater to display the images. 

It uses the following code to retrieve all images in a folder:

UnifiedDirectory dir = System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.VirtualPathProvider.GetDirectory(filePath) as UnifiedDirectory;
unsortedFiles = dir.GetFiles(); ArrayList arrayListSorted = new ArrayList(unsortedFiles); //creating arraylist with the pic, and do a sorting with
allFiles = (UnifiedFile[])arrayListSorted.ToArray(typeof(UnifiedFile));

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Lars Øyvind Bodahl
www.epinova.no 

GetFiles() returns an array of UnifiedFile - LINQ is great when you want to retrieve a subset of that array. (if you're on the correct .NET version that is.. :-))

UnifiedFile[] files = directory.GetFiles();

// First X elements:
var tenFirst = files.Take(10);

// Skip X element before taking Y elements.
var nextTen = files.Skip(10).Take(10);

/magnus

Hi,

Thanks Magnus.

LINQ looks perfect, however when I use Take(10) on a collection of 14 I get a null collection back, have you had any issues with the unfiedCollection like this?

Regards,

Ian