What's the simplest .NET equivalent of a VB6 control array?

Question

Maybe I just don\'t know .NET well enough yet, but I have yet to see a satisfactory way to implement this simple VB6 code easily in .NET (assume this code is on a form with

Answer 1

Make a generic list of textboxes:

var textBoxes = new List();

// Create 10 textboxes in the collection
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    var textBox = new TextBox();
    textBox.Text = "Textbox " + i;
    textBoxes.Add(textBox);
}

// Loop through and set new values on textboxes in collection
for (int i = 0; i < textBoxes.Count; i++)
{
    textBoxes[i].Text = "New value " + i;
    // or like this
    var textBox = textBoxes[i];
    textBox.Text = "New val " + i;
}