Question

I have the following query:

    tblVAL tblval = db.tblVALs.Where(p => p.PID == pid);

Note that I expect to get a list of items that should be returned.
tblVAL is a table in Entity Framework. NOTE THAT I NEED A LIST OF ITEMS TO BE RETURNED AS THERE CAN BE MORE THAN 1 ITEMS THAT IS RETURNS. AS SUCH, I DO NOT WANT TO USE First(), etc.

I get the following message

Cannot implicitly convert type ‘System.Linq.IQuerable to wa.Models.tblVAL’. An implicit converion exist (are you missing a cast? )

Answer 1

Your query is returning a collection. You need to call SingleOrDefault, Single, First, or FirstOrDefault to get a single record.

tblVAL tblval = db.tblVALs.Where(p => p.PID == pid).SingleOrDefault();

If you want a collection, change your variable type to a collection:

IEnumerable<tblVAL> tblval = db.tblVALs.Where(p => p.PID == pid);

You can also call ToList to force query execution:

List<tblVAL> tblval = db.tblVALs.Where(p => p.PID == pid).ToList();