How to Implement Paging,Sorting and Filtering methods in DAL

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HI Guys,

I have been given a task of implementing Sorting,Paging and Filtering methods in the DAL layer of our project not in the UI part in the UI only these methods will be called , i tried finding the answer on Google but failed , can anyone suggest some of their great ideas...help will be appreciated as this task is required on the urgency basis....Thanks........