VCS2010_10_04 – Selecting Data with LINQ to Entities Part 3
In the third of our LINQ to Entities “select” mini-series I talk about selecting a single item from a sequence of our entity objects using First and FirstOrDefault extension methods, demonstrating the difference and how to utilize the “Default” if LINQ query returns an empty sequence. We also briefly look at the order by and where clauses, and look at some shortcuts when working with the FirstOrDefault extension methods, employing an overloaded version that allows us to specify a predicate (where clause).
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