Hi,

>I do a data conversion work and I frequently have to work with and view large data files. Millions of records and the tables can be a few gigabytes.
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>I need something like a VFP browse window so that I can get an overall feel for what's in the table. Paged views just don't give you the same feel for what you are working with.
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>Everything I've seen so far in .NET that would do this appears to want to want read all of the data into memory in order to display it in a grid. But because these files can be so large I would prefer to cache and fetch as needed.

Maybe Skip() and Take() in Linq to SQL ?

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>I am currently writing my own workaround for this, but before I go too far I'm wondering if I missed anything and there is an easy way to do this that I did not see?

Best,
Viv