Question

Basically I’m converting a SQL datatable to a generic list which I can successfully do. But I can’t figure out how to return the the list object. I get a error that say’s a variation of- Cannot implicitly convert type System.Collections.Generic.IList to System.Collections.Generic.List

What would be the correct way to return theList as type List?

public List<MyObject> GetAllMyObjects()
{
    String command = "select * from names ";
    DataTable tableResult = DataTableToList.ExecuteDataTable(command, CommandType.Text, null,connectionString);

    IList<MyObject> theList = DataTableToList.ConvertTo<MyObject>(tableResult);

    return // I’m not sure how to return theList here...
}

Answer 1

Call ToList on your theList object.

return theList.ToList();