Hello,

I'm new to C# and am stuck on the following. I have a Silverlight web service that uses LINQ to query a ADO.NET entity object. e.g.:

[OperationContract]
public List<Customer> GetData()
{
    using (TestEntities ctx = new TestEntities())
    {
        var data = from rec in ctx.Customer
                   select rec;
        return data.ToList();
    }
}

This works fine, but what I want to do is to make this more abstract. The first step would be to return a List<EntityObject> but this gives a compiler error, e.g.:

[OperationContract]
public List<EntityObject> GetData()
{
    using (TestEntities ctx = new TestEntities())
    {
        var data = from rec in ctx.Customer
                   select rec;
        return data.ToList();
    }
}

The error is:

Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<SilverlightTest.Web.Customer>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EntityObject>'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks,

AJ