Linq equivalent of SQL LEFT function?

Question

We have a database with some fields that are varchar(max) which could contain lots of text however I have a situation where I only want to select the first for example 300 c

Answer 1

I found something like this worked for me:

return from locationPart in db.locations
       select new LocationPart
       {                       
         Description = locationPart.description,
         Text = locationPart.text.Substring(0,300)                       
       };

Not ideal because I have to use "select new" to return a a different object, but it seems to work.