I need to understand something in regards to the way LINQ work went returning records versus only a few fields.

I have a declaration like this:

    Public oClient As ClientAPI.ClientService.Client = Nothing

Then, I can do my SQL:

                oClient = (From c
                 In oGeneric.GetClients()
                 Where c.Id = nClientID).FirstOrDefault()

However, if I have to return only a few fields, I will adjust for something like this:

                oClient = (From c
                 In oGeneric.GetClients()
                 Where c.Id = nClientID
                 Select c.FirstName,cLastName).FirstOrDefault()

This will then generate this design time error:

"Value of type 'anonymous type (line 87)' cannot be converted to 'ClientAPI.ClientService.Client'."

Obviously , the declaration is done in a way that it expects the record to be returned. So, when I try to select only a few fields, it does not like it.

Can someone share some light on that?