Returning a single row

Question

I\'m trying to return a single row from a database:

using (connection = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[\"connection\"]))
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Answer 1

reader["col_1"] returns an object. I assume your function has a return type of string, which is where the error is coming from, it cannot implicitly convert the object to a string.

You probably expect a string returned from col_1 so you can just cast it: (string)reader["col_1"].