Question

How do you get the first item only? It seems like I have to do the following otherwise i will get an error as if it was a multiple item and i can’t get just the first element of it.

My goal is i would like to remove the foreach loop from the code below.

                        MetaDataPropertyBag propertyBag = new MetaDataPropertyBag();

                        var dbResultsOfType = db.spi_GetTypesByCaseType(caseType);

                        foreach (var item in dbResultsOfType)
                        {
                            if (item.ASSOC_TYPE_ID == primaryChildTypeID)
                            {
                                propertyBag.CaseTypeDesc = item.DESCRIPTION;
                                propertyBag.Required = item.IS_REQUIRED == 'Y' ? true : false;
                                propertyBag.Parent = item.PARENT_ID.Value;
                                propertyBag.Child = item.CHILD_ID.Value;
                                propertyBag.AssocTypeID = item.ASSOC_TYPE_ID;
                                propertyBag.CaseTypeID = item.CASE_TYPE_ID;
                                break; // Only one entry is requested
                            }
                        }

Answer 1

FirstorDefault should do it:
MSDN article on firstordefault