Try int? foundId = context.Things.Where(t => t.ID == lookupID).Select(t => t.ID).SingleOrDefault();
Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge http://codermike.com On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to find an object in an EF4 entity collection with a specific ID > property and return the int value if it’s found and return (int?)null if > otherwise. This skeleton code crashes of course if the ID isn’t found.**** > > ** ** > > int? foundId = context.Things.SingleOrDefault(t => t.ID == lookupID).ID;** > ** > > ** ** > > So what is the best way of recoding this elegantly as a one-liner so it > gives me the ID or null when not found? It has to be a one-liner because > it’s in a select clause.**** > > ** ** > > Greg**** >
