How to solve cannot implicity convert type System.collections.generic.IList to bool

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Hi,
I have a codings in controller as shown below....

public ActionResult SearchItem()
{
return View(_objItemService.BuildSearchItemView());
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SearchItem(ItemViewModel objtext)
{
if (///_objItemService.BuildSearchItem(objtext)///)
{
return View("SearchItem");
}
return View(_objItemService.BuildSearchItemView());
}

And i created a list in servicelayer like this coding shown below:

public IList<itemviewmodel> BuildSearchItem(ItemViewModel text)
{
IList<itemviewmodel> lkitem = new List<itemviewmodel>();
foreach (var item in _objItemRep.GetItem())
{
lkitem.Add(new ItemViewModel() { ItemId = item.ItemId, ItemTitle = item.ItemTitle, ItemDesc = item.ItemDesc });
}
return lkitem;
}

I got error in controller actionresult searchlinkeditem in the line of if condition that i mentioned within three forward slash....
(///objitemservice.Buildsearchitem(objtext)///)

The above coding shows the error like Cannot implicity convert type system.Collections.generic.Ilist to bool......How to solve it

Cany anyone give me a solution....

Posted 20-Dec-12 17:44pm

vivekx2

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Dec-12 0:33am

What is "above" coding? What line exactly? Even if I could figure out, why? And please use "pre" tags around code.
—SA

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vivekx2 · Answer 1 · 2012-12-20T18:47:00

Hi,
I have a codings in controller as shown below....

public ActionResult SearchItem()
{
return View(_objItemService.BuildSearchItemView());
}
 
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SearchItem(ItemViewModel objtext)
{
if (///_objItemService.BuildSearchItem(objtext)///)
{
return View("SearchItem");
}
return View(_objItemService.BuildSearchItemView());
}

And i created a list in servicelayer like this coding shown below:

public IList BuildSearchItem(ItemViewModel text)
{
IList lkitem = new List();
foreach (var item in _objItemRep.GetItem())
{
lkitem.Add(new ItemViewModel() { ItemId = item.ItemId, ItemTitle = item.ItemTitle, ItemDesc = item.ItemDesc });
}
return lkitem;
}

I got error in controller actionresult searchlinkeditem in the line of if condition that i mentioned within three forward slash....

(///objitemservice.Buildsearchitem(objtext)///)

The above coding shows the error like Cannot implicity convert type system.Collections.generic.Ilist to bool......How to solve it

Cany anyone give me a solution....