return list with anonymous type in entity framework

Question

How i can return list with anonymous type, because with this code i get

\"The type or namespace name \'T\' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or a

Answer 1

Because you're returning objects of an anonymous type, you cannot declare that in your return type for the method. Your attempted use of the generic won't work for this. There is no type-safe way to declare a method like that. If you declare your return type as IList then that should work, but you still won't have type safety.

You're really just better off declaring the type.

Update:

Declaring a simple return type isn't so bad. You could write a class like this:

public class MemberItem
{
    public string IdMember { get; set; }
    public string UserName { get; set; }
}

And then write your method like this:

public static List GetMembersItems(string ProjectGuid)
{
    using (PMEntities context = new PMEntities("name=PMEntities"))
    {
        var items = context.Knowledge_Project_Members.Include("Knowledge_Project").Include("Profile_Information")
                    .Where(p => p.Knowledge_Project.Guid == ProjectGuid)
                    .Select(row => new MemberItem { IdMember = row.IdMember, UserName = row.Profile_Information.UserName });

        return items.ToList();
    }
}