Question

I have this class:

public class TextFiller
{
    public HtmlText Text { get; set; }
    public string Details { get; set; }
}

What I need is to create a parent class that will consist of many TextFillers. I am wondering the best way to do this. Would it be best to do it using what I have on line a, line b or is there some better solution?

public class TextFillerParent
{
  public TextFiller[] TextFiller { get; set; }    <<< a
  public IEnumerable<TextFiller> TextFiller { get; set; }  <<< b
}

What I will be doing is storing the data in Azure so I will want to be able to serialize TextFillerParent into a JSON string. Will there be any difference if the contents of TextFillerParent are an array of TextFiller or if I use the IEnumberable? Are there advantages in using IEnumerable?

I MUST be able to set the value of individual TextFiller. I know I can do this with an array but can I also do that if I use IEnumerable or is IEnumerable only good for sequential access?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You may wish to use the generics version of IList if you need to access individual items. I would recommend it over the array.

Also, using LINQ, you can get much more than sequential access from IEnumerable objects.