>Hi everybody,
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>We have a Web Application with a few layers to access and return data. In the repository we're normally doing queries and return an IEnumerable of the class or just one row of the class.
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>I have a need to return just 2 columns back. I don't want to define a new class. What do you normally do in this situation? E.g. how do you define a method to return a new object without creating a new class? Do you use just object in the signature?

Not enough info about your layers but, in general, I *would* create a new class for the two fields - but farther down the hierarchy and not at the repository level.
You can then retrieve the full rows and use Linq to select into the smaller class. e.g:

var shortRecords = fullRecords.Select(x => new ShortRecord {Age = x.Age, Name = x.Name});

Returning an object jeopardizes type safety and can quickly become messy.....