My name
is
Jon Skeet

Can someone advise me what wrong with my Type or linq query

I am hoping someone can help, my error is

cannot implicitly convert type system.collections.generic.List to xxxlistlitems

I have this

public IDListItems getIDList()
{
    IDListItems items = new IDListItem();
    try
    {
        var x = (from c in db.ap_GetIDListItems()
               select new IDListItems { CId = c.CID, Id = c.ID }).ToList();
        items = x;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        throw ex;
    }
    return items;   
}

and then I have a class like this

namespace SaSs
{
    public class IDListItems 
    {
        public int Id {get; set;}
        public string CId { get; set; }
    }
}

I think its a issue with my return type but im unsure how to for the type to return a list

Others have suggested changing the type of the variable - I'd recommend removing the variable entirely, along with the pointless catch block. You do need to change the return type as well though:

public List<IDListItems> getIDList()
{
    return (from c in db.ap_GetIDListItems()
            select new IDListItems { CId = c.CID, Id = c.ID }).ToList();
}

Or without the somewhat pointless query expression:

public List<IDListItems> getIDList()
{
    return db.ap_GetIDListItems()
             .Select(c => new IDListItems { CId = c.CID, Id = c.ID })
             .ToList();
}

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