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Mar 26, 2008

SQL Server TSQL Coding standards

Hello All,

I found some good articles about SQL Procedure coding standards.

Have a look at following links

SQL Server Best Practices
SQL Server TSQL Coding Conventions, Best Practices, and Programming Guidelines
XML Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Mar 14, 2008

Cannot convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<

I have one problem while working with Generic collection. I am returning the generic collection of base class, which at the end assigned to child class.


List<Child> childs = SelectAll();

Here is the defination of SelectAll();


public override List<MyParent> SelectAll()

While doing this I got an error....

Cannot implicitly convert 'System.Collections.Generic.List<MyParent>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<Child>'

Because, the returning collection is of MyParent and I need to store it into collection of Child.

Here is the solution.

Generic collection List<> provider one Generic method called ConvertAll

ConvertAll: Converts the elements in the current List<(Of <(T>)>) to another type, and returns a list containing the converted elements.

Here is the code,

List childs = SelectAll().ConvertAll<child>(ParentToChild);

and here is the ParentToChild method.

public static Child ParentToChild(MyParent myParent)
{
return (Child)myParent;
}


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