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I'm trying to do the follwoing but having an error " Cannot implicitly convert type 'string'to 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string,string>'"
C#
public  Dictionary<string,> ReasonErrorCodeList
        {
            set
            {
                if (_list.Count> 0)
                {
                  foreach (KeyValuePair<string,> pair in _list)
                  {
                      _list.Add(pair.Key,"1234");
                         
                      
                  }
                  string x = _list.ToString();
                    //string y = _list.
                  infoMessage.Text = string.Format("the list is ",x);
                  infoPanel.Visible = true;
                }
            }
            
            get { 
                
           
                //_list.Add (infoMessage.Text,"ERR_OOOOO1");
                return infoMessage.Text;
            }
         
        }


        
          /// Auto-generated field.
         /// To modify move field declaration from designer file to code-behind file.
   
        protected global::System.Web.UI.WebControls.Literal infoMessage;
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Updated 31-Oct-11 6:43am
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Richard MacCutchan 31-Oct-11 12:48pm    
Which line gives the error? Please don't leave it to people to guess where it occurs.
Nish Nishant 31-Oct-11 13:15pm    
The get-method in the property.

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Assuming _list is a Dictionary<string, string> why are you calling ToString on it? What do you think will that give you?

Also in the setter, you iterate through the dictionary and add items to itself (pointless thing to do).

The error in the get-method is obvious. You cannot return a String when the expected return type is a Dictionary<>.
 
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Richard MacCutchan 31-Oct-11 13:29pm    
Obvious when you look at the code carefully, which I obviously didn't. However I still feel my prompt to OP was valid.
Nish Nishant 31-Oct-11 13:32pm    
Yes it certainly was. I am just better than most people at figuring out what people are trying to say :-)
Nish Nishant 31-Oct-11 13:34pm    
I meant your response was certainly valid. The OP was quite vague in his description.

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