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    <p>I’m trying to access my list in the view like this: </p> <pre><code> List&lt;xxxx.Models.Enrollment&gt; newStudentEnrollment=ViewBag.studentrecord; </code></pre> <p>But I get an error message that says: Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)… I’ve tried using FirstOrDefault() and ToList() like I’ve seen worked for others in this forum but neither worked for me. Also tried removing the ToList() from here 'ViewBag.studentrecord = newRecord.ToList();' in the controller </p> <p>Here’s what I’m doing in my controller….</p> <pre><code> var StudentRecord = (from E in db.Enrollments join S in db.Students.Where(r =&gt; r.StudentID == intStudentNumber) on E.StudentID equals S.StudentID into JoinedStudent from AllStudent in JoinedStudent.DefaultIfEmpty() select new { CourseID=E.CourseID, StudentID=E.StudentID, Date=E.Date, InstructorFullName=E.InstructorFullName, classDays=E.classDays, listOfDays=E.listOfDays, listOfTeachers=E.listOfTeachers, IsStudentEnroll = AllStudent != null ? true : false }).ToList(); var newRecord = from r in StudentRecord where r.StudentID==67 select r; ViewBag.studentrecord = newRecord.ToList(); </code></pre> <p>Seeing that my data is of type List I thought I could do this…</p> <pre><code> List&lt;xxxx.Models.Enrollment&gt; newStudentEnrollment=ViewBag.studentrecord; </code></pre> <p>How do I do a cast with this or make it work in any way?</p> <p>Thanks very much for any help. </p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>So I tried this: </p> <pre><code> List&lt;xxxx.Models.Enrollment&gt; newStudentEnrollment = (List&lt;xxxx.Models.Enrollment&gt;)ViewBag.studentrecord; </code></pre> <p>Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<code>1[&lt;&gt;f__AnonymousType9</code>7[System.Int32,System.Int32,System.String,System.String,System.String,System.String,System.Boolean]]' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[xxxx.Models.Enrollment]'.</p> <p>Also tried:</p> <pre><code> List&lt;xxxx.Models.Enrollment&gt; newStudentEnrollment = ViewBag.studentrecord as List&lt;xxxx.Models.Enrollment&gt;; </code></pre> <p>but newStudentEnrollment was null. I think it has to do with the join clause. It combined two objects so I somehow have to create a generic object of type list. Only I don't know how...any ideas? Thanks.</p> <p>UPDATE</p> <p>I changed the type from a Join to Enrollment like this. var newEnrollment = from e in context.Enrollment where e.SomeId ==someNumber select e;</p> <p>Than in the view this worked: List newStudentEnrollment = (List)ViewBag.studentrecord;</p>
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