Question

I’m trying to define 10 panels in my code, but absolutely do not want to do

public panel1();
public panel2();
etc....

and a quick google search tells me macros are not available in c#. Is there some kind of array I can define to use in place of a macro, or some other way I could handle this ?

Answer 1

Your question is not too clear; but this is how you would define an array of Panels in C#:

Panel[] panels = new Panel[10];

You can use an initializer expression to fill in the panels:

Panel[] panels = new Panel[] { new Panel(), new Panel(), /* ... */ };

It is more likely that you want to loop over something and have some logic create the array – perhaps in a loop or as a LINQ expression, for instance:

Panel[] panels = Enumerable.Range(0,10).Select(n => new Panel(n)).ToArray();