Question

I’ve got a foreach loop fetches everything, but I want it to stop after 10. It appears that I should use for instead. But I don’t understand how to write that while still assigning the required var.

    @foreach (var p in posts)
{ 
        <item>
                <title>@p.GetProperty("zContentTitle").Value</title>
                <dc:creator>@p.GetProperty("zPostAuthor").Value</dc:creator>
                <category>@p.GetProperty("zPostCategories")</category>
                <description>@p.GetProperty("zContentBody").Value.StripHtml().Trim()</description>
                <link>http://@[e-mail]@p.Url</link>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://@[e-mail]@p.Url</guid>
                <pubDate>@p.GetProperty("zPostDate").Value.FormatDateTime("ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss") CST</pubDate>
        </item>
}

Answer 1

Given that small amount of code it’s hard to tell, which of the many options you should use. It seems that the “posts” in

@foreach (var p in posts)
{
  ...
} 

is of type IEnumerable. So you could use the extension method Take(). Your code would look like this:

@foreach (var p in posts.Take(10))
{ 
    <item>
            <title>@p.GetProperty("zContentTitle").Value</title>
            <dc:creator>@p.GetProperty("zPostAuthor").Value</dc:creator>
            <category>@p.GetProperty("zPostCategories")</category>
            <description>@p.GetProperty("zContentBody").Value.StripHtml().Trim()</description>
            <link>http://@[e-mail]@p.Url</link>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">http://@[e-mail]@p.Url</guid>
            <pubDate>@p.GetProperty("zPostDate").Value.FormatDateTime("ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss") CST</pubDate>
    </item>
}