Question

Is there any syntatic sugar for a loop used just to count iterations? For example

int count = randomNumber;
List<X> objectXList = new List<X>();

//Add a new object to objectXList count times
//
for(int i=0; i<count ; i++)
{
    objectXList.Add(new X());
}

Answer 1

Enumerable.Range returns a specified number of integers starting at a given value. In your case Enumerable.Range starting at 0 would work, for a length count.

Enumerable.Range(0, count).ToList().ForEach(i => objectXList.Add(new X()));

or maybe better yet, for all of the micro-optimizers out there:

var objectXList = Enumerable.Range(0, count).Select(i => new X()).ToList();