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I'm very new to Razor/MVC stuff, so I have a very basic question.

I know that I can loop through a model in my partial view as such

@foreach (var e in Model.Modelname)

{

    e.ModelProperty

}

What I would like to do is instead of looping through all the items in the model as above, just get one (or the first one if there are more than one) item from the model.

I realize I could write something like this:

@foreach (var e in Model.Modelname)

{

    e.ModelProp.First()

}

However it seems silly to have to write a loop just to get 1 item from a model..and before anyone says why don't you just write

      e.ModelProp 

Because quite often, I need to get the properties in a model, and I will get a completely different set of properties (and usually much more comprehensive) between writing

 Model.ItemProp    



 or



  foreach (var e in Model.Modelname)

  {

      e.ItemProp

  }

So I guess what I'm really asking is how do I get those individual properties like I can get with var e in Model.Modelname without having to loop through the model?

I've tried stuff like

var e = Model.Modelname;



e.ModelProp

but obivously that doesn't work

thanks!

Looks like your trying to get the first item of Modelname and then the first property of that first item from Modelname:

Model.Modelname.First().ModelProp.First()

If you just want the first object in Modelname and then a specific property:

Model.Modelname.First().ModelProp

Little addition. The list might be empty, so add null checks:

Model.Modelname.FirstOrDefault()?.ModelProp ?? ""

If you want to get ALL the first items of ModelProp then

Model.Modelname.Select(x=> x.ModelProp.FirstOrDefault())

If you want to get the first ModelProp of the first ModelName:

Model.Modelname.FirstOrDefault(x=> x.ModelProp.FirstOrDefault())