How to select only the records with the highest date in LINQ

I have a table, 'lasttraces', with the following fields.

Id, AccountId, Version, DownloadNo, Date

The data looks like this:

28092|15240000|1.0.7.1782|2009040004731|2009-01-20 13:10:22.000
28094|61615000|1.0.7.1782|2009040007696|2009-01-20 13:11:38.000
28095|95317000|1.0.7.1782|2009040007695|2009-01-20 13:10:18.000
28101|15240000|1.0.7.1782|2009040004740|2009-01-20 14:10:22.000
28103|61615000|1.0.7.1782|2009040007690|2009-01-20 14:11:38.000
28104|95317000|1.0.7.1782|2009040007710|2009-01-20 14:10:18.000

How can I, in LINQ to SQL, only get the last lasttrace of every AccountId (the one with the highest date)?

If you just want the last date for each account, you'd use this:

var q = from n in table
        group n by n.AccountId into g
        select new {AccountId = g.Key, Date = g.Max(t=>t.Date)};

If you want the whole record:

var q = from n in table
        group n by n.AccountId into g
        select g.OrderByDescending(t=>t.Date).FirstOrDefault();

Here is a simple way to do it

var lastPlayerControlCommand = this.ObjectContext.PlayerControlCommands
                                .Where(c => c.PlayerID == player.ID)
                                .OrderByDescending(t=>t.CreationTime)
                                .FirstOrDefault();
            

Also have a look this great LINQ place - LINQ to SQL Samples

If you want the whole record,here is a lambda way:

var q = _context
             .lasttraces
             .GroupBy(s => s.AccountId)
             .Select(s => s.OrderByDescending(x => x.Date).FirstOrDefault());

It could be something like:

var qry = from t in db.Lasttraces
          group t by t.AccountId into g
          orderby t.Date
          select new { g.AccountId, Date = g.Max(e => e.Date) };

Go a simple way to do this :-

Created one class to hold following information

• Level (number)
• Url (Url of the site)

Go the list of sites stored on a ArrayList object. And executed following query to sort it in descending order by Level.

var query = from MyClass object in objCollection 
    orderby object.Level descending 
    select object

Once I got the collection sorted in descending order, I wrote following code to get the Object that comes as top row

MyClass topObject = query.FirstRow<MyClass>()

This worked like charm.