Question

I’ve got what appears to be a fairly basic loop:

<% foreach (var item in Model.Items.OrderByDescending(b => b.ItemDateTime)) {%>

Instead of looping through all the items I just want to output the first item, how can I do this?

Answer 1

To expand on Felipe’s comment, it’s better design usually to put things like this in your view models or controllers, not the views.

You could put this on your viewmodel

public Item EarliestItem
{
    get { return Items.OrderByDescending(b => b.ItemDateTime).FirstOrDefault(); }
}

Then use this in your view

Or whatever it is you want to do with the earliest item.