LINQ-to-Entities null conditional on navigation property on anonymous class

Question

I am selecting an anonymous class in a LINQ-to-Entities query:

  var users = (from u in db.Users.OrderByDescending(u => u.ID).Skip(skip).Take(200)
  select new{
              u.ID, u.FirstName, u.LastName, u.Gender, u.IsEnabled, u.Media
            }).ToList();

The problem is with the media column. Media is a navigation property, that may have zero or more objects. Media is a class where it has a URL property, which has its own table and navigation property on User. I want to select an anonymous class such as:

select new{
              u.ID, u.FirstName, u.LastName, u.Gender, u.IsEnabled, "u.Media's first items URL proprty, or null/empty string if u.Media is empty"
            }).ToList();

Is this possible? If yes, how?

Answer 1

Since this is a linq-to-enities query you can do this, no need to worry about null reference exceptions.

u.Media.FirstOrDefault().Url