Can not implicity convert type Systems.Collection.Generic.List<feedEventViewModel> to Proj.Areas.Management.Models.FeedEventViewModel

Question

I'm trying to convert a view model to list and then return it to the view but am getting the cannot implicity convert type error.

Code:

public ActionResult Index(FeedEventCommand command)
{
    var feedEventViewModel = new FeedEventViewModel
    {
        AnimalId = command.AnimalId,
        AnimalName = command.AnimalName,
        FeederTypeId = command.FeederTypeId,
        FeederType = command.FeederType
    };
    feedEventViewModel = new List<feedEventViewModel>();  <--Error line

    return View(feedEventViewModel);
}

What am I doing wrong in this case?

Answer 1

feedEventViewModel is already declared as a single object, you can't declare it again as a List<FeedEventViewModel>(). Other language such as Rust allows you to "shadow" the variable declaration but C# not (and var is just a shorter way to declare a variable).
You can solve this issue quite easily:

return View(  new List<FeedEventViewModel>() {
    new FeedEventViewModel{
        AnimalId = command.AnimalId,
        AnimalName = command.AnimalName,
        FeederTypeId = command.FeederTypeId,
        FeederType = command.FeederType
       }
    }
    );