What is the different between List into Raw View and List into Array ?

Question

I've result set as following,

Raw View

Into Array

How to convert List Raw View into List of Array?

Answer 1

Right, so looking at the code, _employeeDM.GetAll() returns an EmployeeVM which cannot be converted to an array. However I see that it contains a List<EmploeeVM.Employee>, and that can be converted to an array.

For example,

EmployeeVM viewModel = _employeeDM.GetAll();
var employeesArray = viewModel.Employees.ToArray()

Answer 2

Hi @Jaliya Udagedara ,

For return type, see the code

 public class EmployeeController : Controller  
    {  
        public static List<EmployeeVM> emp = new List<EmployeeVM>();  
  
        private IDepartmentDM _departmentDM;  
  
  
        private IEmployeeDM _employeeDM;  

public EmployeeController(IDepartmentDM departmentDM, IEmployeeDM employeeDM)  
        {  
            _departmentDM = departmentDM;  
            _employeeDM = employeeDM;  
        }  
  
          
        public IActionResult Index()  
        {              
            ViewBag.DataSource = _employeeDM.GetAll();  
             
            return View();  
        }  
  

using System;  
using System.Collections.Generic;  
using System.Linq;  
using System.Threading.Tasks;  
  
namespace TAFACoreMvc.Models  
{  
    public interface IEmployeeDM  
    {  
        EmployeeVM GetAll();  
    }  
}  

This is the method

 public EmployeeVM GetAll()  
        {  
            var vm = new EmployeeVM();  
  
            var dtos = svc.GetAll().ToList();  
  
            vm.Employees.AddRange(dtos.Select(dto => new EmployeeVM.Employee()  
            {  
                EmployeeId = dto.EmployeeId,  
                DepartmentId = dto.DepartmentId,  
                DepartmentName = dto.DepartmentName,  
                EmployeeName = dto.EmployeeName,  
                Designation = dto.Designation  
            }).ToList());  
  
            return vm;  
        }  

The return type is List<T>