Cannot implicitly convert type '.List' to '.List'

Question

In the following code that returns a list:

public List GeAllCust()
{
    var results = db.Customers
        .Select(x => new { x.CustName,         


        

Answer 1

You are selecting to an anonymous type, which is not a Customer.

If you want to do (sort of) this, you can write it like this:

return db.Customers.Select(x => new Customer { Name = x.CustName, Email = x.CustEmail, Address = x.CustAddress, ContactNo = x.ContactNo }).ToList();

This assumes the properties on your Customer object are what I called them.

** EDIT ** Per your comment,

If you want to return a subset of the table, you can do one of two things:

1. Return the translated form of Customer as I specified above, or:
2. Create a new class for your business layer that only has only those four fields, and change your method to return a List (assuming ShunkenCustomer is the name that you choose for your new class.)