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Reputation: 43

How To convert Model object list To Data object list in c# implicity

Here is my code in my model:

public class Employee:
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

and here is my code in my controller:

public class EmployeeController : ApiController
{
    Data.MainDataClassDataContext db =new Data.MainDataClassDataContext();
    public List<Data.Pezeshk> Get()
    {
        var q = from e in db.Pezeshks
                select new Models.Employee
                {
                    Id = e.p_ID,
                    FirstName = e.p_Name,
                    LastName = e.p_Family,
                };
        return q.ToList();
    }
}

and my data class is linq to sql data class, but my problem is in the last line q.ToList(); I got this error:

you can not implicitly convert Model To Data

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2188

Answers (1)

Gilad Green
Gilad Green

Reputation: 37271

Your method's signature is public List<Data.Pezeshk> Get() while the list you are constructing contains objects of type new Models.Employee.

I assume you want to change this: public List<Data.Pezeshk> Get() to this: public List<Models.Employee> Get()

And as a side note - Maybe you'd want to return IEnumerable<Employee> instead of converting it to a List

Upvotes: 2

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