unable to convert the return statement Of LInq, It gives the error "cannot implicitly convert type system.collections.generic.list<Anonymous Type#1> to system.collections.generic.IList<Student>",

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public class Student:BaseEntity
{
#region fields
public string StudentID { get; set; }

public string FirstName{get;set;}

public string LastName { get; set; }

public int Age { get; set; }

public string Gender { get; set; }

public string Batch { get; set; }

public string Address { get; set; }

#endregion
}

public virtual IList<student> GetStudentByID()
{

var query = from c in _studentRepository.Table
orderby c.StudentID
select new
{ c.StudentID,
c.FirstName,
c.LastName,
c.Age
};

var details = query.ToList();
return details;

}

Posted 5-Nov-14 18:56pm

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var query = from c in _studentRepository.Table
orderby c.StudentID
select new Student
{ StudentID=c.StudentID,
FirstName=c.FirstName,
LastName=c.LastName,
Age=c.Age
};

After Implementing the Above code it gives error as " Cannot Initialize type 'Student' with a collection initialize beacuse it does not implement 'System.Collections.IEnumerable' "

Posted 5-Nov-14 19:49pm

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BillWoodruff 6-Nov-14 7:32am

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*Suvabrata Roy* · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-05T19:23:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Above error is self exploratory,

Solution :

C#

var query = from c in _studentRepository.Table
orderby c.StudentID
select new Student
{ StudentID=c.StudentID,
FirstName=c.FirstName,
LastName=c.LastName,
Age=c.Age
};

it will work.

Posted 5-Nov-14 19:23pm

Suvabrata Roy

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Member 11210682 6-Nov-14 1:50am

var query = from c in _studentRepository.Table
orderby c.StudentID
select new Student
{ StudentID=c.StudentID,
FirstName=c.FirstName,
LastName=c.LastName,
Age=c.Age
};

After Implementing the Above code it gives error as " Cannot Initialize type 'Student' with a collection initialize beacuse it does not implement 'System.Collections.IEnumerable' "

Suvabrata Roy 6-Nov-14 2:36am

Please check your Syntax or post the whole code