Generic Method Reutn Type

[Bombdrop]

Can any one help I have a method that will return a List to be bound as a datasource to a combobox see code for population below. I get the following error when i try to compile

Error 29 Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<Prsym.ComboPopulation.ComboInfo>' to 'System.Collections.Generic.List<T>

'

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the data source to be bound to a ComboBox.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="storedProcedure">The Name of the Stored Procedure to be used.</param>
        /// <param name="scheme">The scheme.</param>
        /// <returns>A Generic List to be dound to a ComboBox</returns>
        private static List<T> GetDataSource<T>(string storedProcedure, PrsymScheme scheme)
        {
            Type dataSourceListType = typeof(T);

            if (dataSourceListType == typeof(ComboInfo)) {
                List<ComboInfo> dataSourceList = new List<ComboInfo>();
                ComboInfo datSourceComboInfo = new ComboInfo();
                DataBaseAccess DBA = new DataBaseAccess(scheme);
                SqlDataReader reader = null;
                DBA.LoadData(ref reader, storedProcedure);

                while (reader.Read()) {
                    datSourceComboInfo.Display = reader["Display"].ToString();
                    datSourceComboInfo.Index = Convert.ToInt32(reader["Index"].ToString());
                    dataSourceList.Add(datSourceComboInfo);
                }

                //Clean up
                reader.Dispose();

                System.Collections.ArrayList p = new System.Collections.ArrayList();
              
                return dataSourceList;

            } else {
                return null;
            }              

        }

Any help would be greatly received

[RudiVisser]

By your original post title, I beleive the generic return method is object/Object, with the problem in your post, is there some sort of converter function from type 1 (System.Collections.Generic.List<Prsym.ComboPopulation.ComboInfo>) to type 2 (System.Collections.Generic.List<T>)?