PagedList - a way to use not with the whole collection

Question

I've got simple action in which I make a request to web service to get a LIST<> of articles for specific group.

Then using pagedList (and specifying the desired page and page number) of course I specify the subset of that list I want to take. The problem is : the article for specific group can be thousand for example - and getting the info for all of them from the web service takes a lot of time and even sometimes crushes (when the articles are above 1000)

Is there a way to get the articles only for the specific page and still to use pagedList because I see that unfortunately we have to call ToPagedList method for the whole collection.

public virtual ActionResult ImportShow(String id, int? menuID, string articlegroupID, string menuforHistory,int? counter,int?page,int? pageSize,string articleDescr, int?  ArticleID)
        {



                List<WebServiceBeaMenu> standartList = ebServiceBea.GetArticle(Convert.ToInt32(menuID), articlegroupID, "", articleDescr);
                IPagedList<WebServiceBeaMenu> p_ProductsShow = standartList.ToPagedList(actualpage,actualPageSize);

                p_GroupMenu.ProductMenu = p_ProductsShow;
                p_GroupMenu.MenuHistory = p_GetMenuHistory.ToList();
                p_GroupMenu.MenuLeft = p_GetMenuLeft.ToList();
                return PartialView("ImportShow", p_GroupMenu);                 
            }
        }

here is my view

@model  MvcBeaWeb.GroupMenu



        @for (int i = 0; i < Model.ProductMenu.Count; i++)
        {

        <div>
            var item = Model.ProductMenu[i];



            @Html.PagedListPager(Model.ProductMenu, page => Url.Action("ImportShow", new { id = Model.LanguageName, menuID = @Session["men"], articlegroupID = Session["article"], articleDescr = Session["articleDescr"], pageSize = Session["pageSize"], page }))

    </div>

Answer 1

You should rewrite .GetArticle() Or replace it with whith somethink like .GetPagedArticle() if you have access to WebService. This methid should have all paging params. That's the only way i think. Your .GetArticle() method should return object like this:

public class Set<T>
{
    public Set()
    {
        Elements = new List<T>();
    }

    public Set(List<T> elements, int rowsAll)
    {
        Elements = elements;
        RowsAll = rowsAll;
    }

    public Set(List<T> elements, int rowsOnPage, int pageSelected, int rowsAll)
    {
        Elements = elements;
        PageSelected = pageSelected;
        RowsOnPage = rowsOnPage;
        RowsAll = rowsAll;
        PagesAll = (rowsAll % RowsOnPage == 0) ? rowsAll / RowsOnPage : rowsAll / RowsOnPage + 1; ;
    }
    public int RowsOnPage { get; set; }
    public List<T> Elements { get; set; }
    public int? RowsAll { get; set; }
    public int PageSelected { get; set; }
    public int PagesAll { get; set; }
}

Where Elements should be not all elements, but only paged one.