Hi all,

I am very new to MVC. just started learning from past few days. Was previously java developer. I am using professional ASP.NET MVC 2 . I was designing NerdDinner site and when i designed this Dinner.cs as told in the book, i started getting erros in DinnerRepository.cs saying

Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Data.Objects.ObjectSet<NerdDinner.Dinner>' to 'System.Linq.IQueryable<NerdDinner.Models.Dinner>' . An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

i know i am missing something simple but i am not able to put it right. can anyone help me?


Thanks in advance

Please post your code and I'll try to figure it out.

*********** Dinner Repository **************

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace NerdDinner.Models
{
public class DinnerRepository
{
private NerdDinnerEntities entities = new NerdDinnerEntities();
//
// Query Methods
public IQueryable<Dinner> FindAllDinners()
{
return entities.Dinners;
}
public IQueryable<Dinner> FindUpcomingDinners()
{
return from dinner in entities.Dinners
where dinner.EventDate > DateTime.Now
orderby dinner.EventDate
select dinner;
}
public Dinner GetDinner(int id)
{
return entities.Dinners.FirstOrDefault(d => d.DinnerID == id);
}
//
// Insert/Delete Methods
public void Add(Dinner dinner)
{
entities.Dinners.AddObject(dinner);
}
public void Delete(Dinner dinner)
{
foreach (var rsvp in dinner.RSVPs)
{
entities.RSVPs.DeleteObject(rsvp);
}
entities.Dinners.DeleteObject(dinner);
}
//
// Persistence
public void Save()
{
entities.SaveChanges();
}
}
}


************* Dinner.cs ***************

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace NerdDinner.Models
{

[MetadataType(typeof(Dinner_Validation))]
public partial class Dinner {
//…
}
public class Dinner_Validation
{
[Required(ErrorMessage = “Title is required”)]
[StringLength(50, ErrorMessage = “Title may not be longer than 50 characters”)]
public string Title { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = “Description is required”)]
[StringLength(265, ErrorMessage =
“Description must be 256 characters or less”)]
public string Description { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = “Address is required”)]
public string Address { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = “Country is required”)]
public string Country { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = “Phone# is required”)]
public string ContactPhone { get; set; }
}
}