Question

I have three classes in my C# program.
Get the following error:

Cannot implicitly convert type ‘object’ to
‘Register_Employee.Employee’. An explicit conversion exists (are you
missing a cast?) C:\Users\x64\Documents\Visual Studio
2010\Projects\Register Employee\Register
Employee\EmployeeList.cs 20 20 Register Employee

I know what the problem is. You have to return the correct type of object, but I don’t know how to solve it.
I have a class Employee, a class EmployeeList which holds employees and the main program.

namespace Register_Employee
{
    class EmployeeList
    {
        ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

       public void addEmployee(Employee a)
       {
           this.list.Add(a);
       }

        public Employee GetEmployee(int Index)
        {
            var e = list[Index]; <<<<<The problems
            return e;  <<<<<The problems
        }

    }
}

namespace Register_Employee
{
    class Employee
    {

        public Employee(String iD, String firstName, String lastName)
        {
            this.ID = iD;
            this.FirstName = firstName;
            this.LastName = lastName;
        }

        public String ID { get; set; }
        public String FirstName { get; set; }
        public String LastName { get; set; }


    }
}

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As the error message says, you need to explicitly cast:

Employee e = (Employee)list[Index];

Also, you could use a List<Employee> instead of ArrayList.