Hello,

I work for a healthcare company. The wheels of change turn somewaht slower here, which is why we still have various projects with EF6 (which cannot easily be converted to EF Core because it does not support .NET 4.8.1).

This pull request contains a compatibility package for Entity Framework Version 6. It seems to me that it is still very widespread and actively used. The most recently version 6.5.1 (released on 2024-06-17) has already been downloaded ~1.5 million times.

I checked the resulting SQL queries of the following LINQ query and got the expected statement (correctly implemented in SQL):

var page10 = await db.Persons
    .OrderBy(x => x.Id)
    .ToPagedListAsync(pageNumber: 10, pageSize: 25);

The SQL command(s) sent to the MS SQL server:

--- total item count
SELECT 
    [GroupBy1].[A1] AS [C1]
    FROM ( SELECT 
        COUNT(1) AS [A1]
        FROM [dbo].[Persons] AS [Extent1]
    )  AS [GroupBy1]

--- get page 10
SELECT 
    [Extent1].[Id] AS [Id], 
    [Extent1].[Firstname] AS [Firstname], 
    [Extent1].[Lastname] AS [Lastname]
    FROM [dbo].[Persons] AS [Extent1]
    ORDER BY row_number() OVER (ORDER BY [Extent1].[Id] ASC)
    OFFSET 225 ROWS FETCH NEXT 25 ROWS ONLY