Linq to SQL Silverlight 4 WCF services

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I don't understand why I'm getting the following error:

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Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<Contract>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<string>'

public class Service : IService
{
    public List<string> GetContract(string Contract)
    {
        Contract_GenDataContext db = new Contract_GenDataContext();
        var matchingContract = from con in db.Contracts
                               where con.Contract1.Contains(Contract)
                               select con;
        return matchingContract.ToList();
    }
}

Posted 18-Jul-10 22:14pm

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2010-07-18T22:54:00

Don't you think the reason is obvious and clear! You are trying to return Generic List of type contract where the return types defined is List of type string?

Change the return type to List<Contract> OR convert List<Contract> to List<String> explicitly.

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public List<Contract> GetContract(string Contract)
{
    Contract_GenDataContext db = new Contract_GenDataContext();
    var matchingContract = from con in db.Contracts
                           where con.Contract1.Contains(Contract)
                           select con;
    return matchingContract.ToList();
}

**Kunal Chowdhury «IN»** · Answer 2 · 2010-07-21T08:42:00

Hi,

The collection you are returning here i.e. matchingContract is a type of Contract and db.Contracts is a collection of Contract.

But, as your method return type is of type List<string></string> it is throwing Conversion Error. The message shown by Visual Studio is proper and you can easily get the issue.

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