通过 linq 选择最后一条记录失败，“方法无法识别”

Question

我有以下查询来选择数据库中的最后一条记录

using (Entities ent = new Entities())
{
Loaction last = (from x in ent.Locations select x).Last();
Location add = new Location();
add.id = last.id+1;
//some more stuff
}

通过ext.net上的“直接事件”调用包含这些行的方法时返回以下错误：

LINQ to Entities does not recognize the method 'Prototype.DataAccess.Location Last[Location]
(System.Linq.IQueryable`1[Prototype.DataAccess.Location])' method,
and this method cannot be translated into a store expression.

表结构如下：

int ident IDENTITY NOT NULL,
int id NOT NULL,
varchar(50) name NULL,
//some other varchar fields

Answer 1

Linq to Entities 不支持 Last。执行OrderByDescending（通常通过 ID 或某个日期列）并首先选择。比如：

Location last = (from l in ent.Locations
                 orderby l.ID descending
                 select l).First();

或者

Location last = ent.Locations.OrderByDescending(l => l.ID).First();

请参阅 MSDN 文章 Supported and Unsupported LINQ Methods (LINQ to Entities) 以供参考。