IEnumerable VS IList VS IQueryable

Question

New to the MVC.net scene (and .net for that matter), but seems I find a wide array of options when wanting to populate a \"list\" with data. In my case at the moment, I\'d

Answer 1

My rules of thumb:

• Use a List when you have to add, remove, or refer to an item by index.

• Use a IQueryable when you have to run ad-hoc queries against it.

• Use IEnumerable by default.

It looks like you're already doing the query "in" your database, so I'd suggest using the simplest version: IEnumerable to simply be able to loop through the results.