I have an Entity with the following fields GUID TaskId, GUID SubTaskId, DateTime Timestamp
The TaskId may be one-to-many with the SubTaskId. It's like a composite key almost.
I would like to write an expression or expressions resulting in the newest among each TaskId i.e.
TaskId SubTaskId Timestamp
1 A 2010-11-22 15:48:49.727
1 B 2010-11-22 16:24:51.117
2 C 2010-11-15 11:49:05.717
2 D 2010-11-15 14:02:11.467
Would result in a sequence containing only:
TaskId SubTaskId Timestamp
1 B 2010-11-22 16:24:51.117
2 D 2010-11-15 14:02:11.467
This expression works just fine for showing all TaskId's and TimeStamps
var q1 =
from req in myEntity
orderby req.TaskId
select new
{
req.TaskId,
req.SubTaskId,
req.Timestamp
};
but I would like to show only the latest Timestamp for each TaskId. All my attempts at adding a max to the expression fail. The posting (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2034800/how-do-you-find-the-group-wise-max-in-linq) seemed close, but I couldn't translate it into something working. Perhaps a foreach
is needed.