How to convert IEnumerable type to List type?

Question

I am trying to fetch certain database values and store them in a datatable. After that I am applying linq to group by all the data with account number. I am storing the final result in a list which is of the following class type -

  class ListItems
    {
        public string accountNumbers
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
         
        public string itemNumbers
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

    }

My code is:

List<ListItems> accounts = new List<ListItems>();

        public void GetItems(int ID1, int ID2)
        {
            con = new SqlConnection(connection);
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
            cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
            cmd.CommandText = "sp_FetchItems";
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@id1", ID1);
            cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@id2", ID2);
            cmd.Connection = con;
            SqlDataAdapter adp = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            adp.Fill(dt);

            accounts = from result in dt.AsEnumerable() 
                       group result by result.Field<string>("accountNumber");
           
        }

I am getting the following error

Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<System.Linq.IGrouping<string, System.Data.DataRow>>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<PricingPractice.ListItems>

on line

 accounts = from result in dt.AsEnumerable() 
                       group result by result.Field<string>("accountNumber");

I even tried to convert this expression using ToList() but it is also not working.

Answer 1

Try this:

class ListItem
{
    public string accountNumber { get; set; }
     
    public List<string> itemNumbers { get; set; }
}

accounts = (from result in dataTable.AsEnumerable() group result by result.Field<string>("accountNumber") into g select new ListItems { accountNumber = g.Key, itemNumbers = g.Select(x => x.Field<string>("<itemNumber>")).ToList() }).ToList();

An explanation is in order:

1. I changed your ListItems class to ListItem and the itemNumbers property to be of type List<string>
2. I am grouping all items (, I don't know the name of the column in your database) to a single ListItem instance, grouped by the accountNumber column, and storing all items in the itemNumbers property