Can (should) objects be dynamically named and referenced?

In Actionscript 2.0 there is the concept of dynamically generating and
naming objects at runtime. Dynamically named objects can be referenced and
manipulated programmatically using array-access notation.

I'm curious if a similar concept exists in Csharp.

I'm building content management apparatus for ASP.NET pages. I was thinking
it would be nice if I could take database content and generate objects out
of the results of the query. The objects could be named based on DB data:
say, the primary key.

If ADO.NET already returns data rows elements as individual objects, I'm
going to feel kind of dumb. My background is in Classic ASP/ADO. The point
of rendering the data as objects is so that I can have a clean mechanism to
allow the user to override properties for individual records: say, they want
to specify a custom title. As programmer, I could also override certain data
properties to match changing conditions: say, a changed layout.

My solution may be overbuilt given my needs. Can someone offer perspectives?

-KF

[Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]]

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In Actionscript 2.0 there is the concept of dynamically generating and
naming objects at runtime. Dynamically named objects can be referenced and
manipulated programmatically using array-access notation.

Well, you could easily generate your objects and store them in a dictionary
using the name you want as a key, but objects in .NET generally do not have
names.

Could you try to explain what you are after a little more clearly, I'm
afraid I just don't understand quite what you mean.