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Using the Replicator Activity

It would be incorrect to say that the Replicator activity is equivalent to a for loop in C# processing terms. The C# Language Specification 1.2 tells us the for loop in C# looks like the following:

for ( for-initializer ; for-condition ; for-iterator ) embedded-statement

embedded-statement is executed until the for-condition evaluates to true (if omitted, it’s assumed to be true), beginning with for-initializer and executing for-iterator for every iteration. There is nothing mentioned regarding replication in any of the C# for statement components. With replication, we envision a cookie-cutter software factory that stamps out exact replicas of the original code. C# for loops don’t operate in this fashion.

In fact, the ...