Cannot implicitly convert System.Collections.Generic.List to

Question

I have this code as shown in the diagram below: and I have this error Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List ' to 'BPP.CCSP.Admin.Web.ViewModels.AdminVM.CountriesViewModel' Please how do I resolve it.

Ankit Sharma · Answer

Hi Mike You are getting this error because the return type of your method is CountriesViewModel and the variable that you are returning - listofCountries is of type List . Hence the compiler is throwing an implicit type conversion error Please change your return type to List

Laxmidhar Sahoo · Answer

sir I think contriesviewmodel is a class that you return .But you return a list of object

Ramesh Palanivel · Answer

Hi Mike try this code public List getCountriesList() { var countryList = backendDB.COUNTRIES.Where(c => c.ACTION_STATUS == 0).ToList(); List listofCountries = new List (); foreach (var countryItem in countryList) { CountriesViewModel.CountriesListItem modelObj = new CountriesViewModel.CountriesListItem() { COUNTRY_ID = countryItem.COUNTRY_ID COUNTRY_CODE = countryItem.COUNTRY_CODE COUNTRY_NAME = countryItem.COUNTRY_NAME ACTION_STATUS = (int)countryItem.ACTION_STATUS CREATED_BY = countryItem.CREATED_BY CREATED_DATE = countryItem.CREATED_DATE DELETED_BY = countryItem.DELETED_BY DELETED_DATE = countryItem.DELETED_DATE LAST_UPDATE_BY = countryItem.LAST_UPDATE_BY LAST_UPDATE_DATE = countryItem.LAST_UPDATE_DATE }; listofCountries.Add(modelObj); } return listofCountries; }