Accessing Large Lists

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee857094(v=office.14).aspx

SharePoint development guidelines indicate that you should not attempt to retrieve more than 2000 items in a single query. If this is a possibility in your application, consider using the RowLimit element in your CAML queries to limit how much data that the client object model retrieves for your application. Sometimes you must access all items in a list that may contain more than 2000 items. If you must do so, then best practice is to page through the items 2000 at a time. This section presents an approach to paging using the ListItemCollectionPosition property.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        ClientContext clientContext =
            new ClientContext("http://intranet.contoso.com");

        List list = clientContext.Web.Lists
            .GetByTitle("Client API Test List");

        // First, add 20 items to Client API Test List so that there are
        // enough records to show paging.
        ListItemCreationInformation itemCreateInfo =
            new ListItemCreationInformation();
        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
        {
            ListItem listItem = list.AddItem(itemCreateInfo);
            listItem["Title"] = String.Format("New Item #{0}", i);
            listItem["Category"] = "Development";
            listItem["Estimate"] = i;
            listItem.Update();
        }
        clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

        // This example shows paging through the list ten items at a time.
        // In a real-world scenario, you would want to limit a page to
        // 2000 items.
        ListItemCollectionPosition itemPosition = null;
        while (true)
        {
            CamlQuery camlQuery = new CamlQuery();
            camlQuery.ListItemCollectionPosition = itemPosition;
            camlQuery.ViewXml =
                @"
                    
                      
                      
                      
                    
                    10
                  ";
            ListItemCollection listItems = list.GetItems(camlQuery);
            clientContext.Load(listItems);
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
            itemPosition = listItems.ListItemCollectionPosition;
            foreach (ListItem listItem in listItems)
                Console.WriteLine("  Item Title: {0}", listItem["Title"]);
            if (itemPosition == null)
                break;
            Console.WriteLine(itemPosition.PagingInfo);
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
    }
}