Question

I am trying to develop a windows form application in which the user will set an unknown amount of “subcategories”. How can I automate the naming of these new instances.

In case it helps here is what I am going for

private class Category
{
    int numberOfCategories = 0;

    Category(int categoryNumber)
    {
        numberOfCategories = categoryNumber;

        for (int i = 0; i <= numberOfCategories; ++i)
        {
            SubCategory *automateThis* = new SubCategory();
        }
    }
}
private class SubCategory
{

Thank you.

Answer 1

Why would you name them? It will create another problem – how would you access them?
Better approach is to create collection List<SubCategory> and in such a case you don’t have to worry about naming objects.

In case you want to delete SubCategories – you may consider using Dictionary where string may be unique identifier for SubCategory.