Take first item from Include collection

Question

I have the following code that works fine:

var model = db.TankCentres
            .Include(images => images.ProfileImages)
            .Where(t => t.Live == true)
            .ToList();

ProfileImages is a collection but I only want to take the first item, so I want to do something like:

var model = db.TankCentres
            .Include(images => images.ProfileImages.FirstOrDefault())
            .Where(t => t.Live == true)
            .ToList();

but this does not work.

How can I achieve what I'm looking to do?

Answer 1

How about this?

var model = db.TankCentres.Where(t => t.Live == true)
            .Select(i => new { ProfileImage = i.ProfileImages.FirstOrDefault(), TankCentre = i} )
           .ToList();

Answer 2

I used this is the end:

var model = from t in db.TankCentres
                    where t.Live == true
                    select new ViewAllTanksViewModel
                    {
                        Id = t.Id,
                        Name = t.Name,
                        Address = t.Address,
                        Live = t.Live,
                        ExperienceId = t.ExperienceId,
                        MainImageVM = t.ProfileImages.FirstOrDefault()
                    };