C# List<> question

Question

Im new to the C# language and I have now advanced to lists.
I placed a few lines of code below and here is my question:     If every needed object I make I want to keep and I use a List<>  then every time I must supply a unique object name(reference).  So if Lists were made to replace arrays when possible,  how then would C# program create unique names to create objects and then store them in a List<> at run-time?


 

Not included in the snippet is the student class that has a method() to enter the name, ____,height etc of each student.
After running this code of course all reference the last objetc and thus all are the same.  An array[x] by the very nature of using x to index it becomes a unique name at run time.  Below I could use s1,s2,s3 for each object but not very practical for real world.   Some one please explain how this is done in real world, please.

 

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{class Program
{static void Main(string[] args)
{List<student> stdb = new List<student>();

 

           student st = new student();

 

   st.enterstudent(

"John Miller", 44, 1, 69, 190);                            stdb.Add(st);
   st.enterstudent("Robert Sanchez", 38, 1, 70, 160);                     stdb.Add(st);
   st.enterstudent("Jim Goalten", 71, 1, 65, 145);                           stdb.Add(st);

 

 

foreach(student x in stdb) student.display(x);

}
}
}

Answer 1

Your question doesen't really relate to Windows Live Messenger client development, and I don't quite understand what your asking for either.


But anyway in C# items in lists aren't referenced by names, you use an index.

e.g.:
Console.WriteLine(stdb[0].whatever);
//This would output the whavever property of the first student structure/class in the list.