大多数情况下，使用List就足够了。List使用内部数组来处理其数据，并在向List中添加比当前容量更多的元素时自动调整数组的大小，这使得它比需要事先知道容量的数组更容易使用。

有关c#中的列表的更多信息，请参阅http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379570(v=vs.80).aspx#datastructures20_1_topic5，或者只是反编译System.Collections.Generic.List<T>。

如果需要多维数据(例如使用矩阵或图形编程)，则可能使用数组。

像往常一样，如果内存或性能是一个问题，测量它!否则，您可能会对代码做出错误的假设。

填充列表比填充数组更容易。对于数组，您需要知道数据的确切长度，但对于列表，数据大小可以是任何大小。你可以把一个列表转换成一个数组。

List<URLDTO> urls = new List<URLDTO>();

urls.Add(new URLDTO() {
    key = "wiki",
    url = "https://...",
});

urls.Add(new URLDTO()
{
    key = "url",
    url = "http://...",
});

urls.Add(new URLDTO()
{
    key = "dir",
    url = "https://...",
});

// convert a list into an array: URLDTO[]
return urls.ToArray();

与其对每种数据类型的特性进行比较，我认为最实用的答案是“对于您需要完成的任务来说，差异可能并不那么重要，特别是因为它们都实现了IEnumerable，所以遵循流行的惯例，使用List，直到您有理由不使用List，此时您可能会有理由使用数组而不是List。”

大多数情况下，在托管代码中，您会希望集合尽可能易于使用，而不是担心微观优化。

实际上，我只是想添加一个链接，我很惊讶还没有提到:Eric的Lippert的博客条目“数组被认为有点有害”。

您可以从标题中判断，它建议在任何可行的地方使用集合——但正如Marc正确地指出的那样，在很多地方，数组确实是唯一可行的解决方案。

Lists in .NET are wrappers over arrays, and use an array internally. The time complexity of operations on lists is the same as would be with arrays, however there is a little more overhead with all the added functionality / ease of use of lists (such as automatic resizing and the methods that come with the list class). Pretty much, I would recommend using lists in all cases unless there is a compelling reason not to do so, such as if you need to write extremely optimized code, or are working with other code that is built around arrays.

Another situation not yet mentioned is when one will have a large number of items, each of which consists of a fixed bunch of related-but-independent variables stuck together (e.g. the coordinates of a point, or the vertices of a 3d triangle). An array of exposed-field structures will allow the its elements to be efficiently modified "in place"--something which is not possible with any other collection type. Because an array of structures holds its elements consecutively in RAM, sequential accesses to array elements can be very fast. In situations where code will need to make many sequential passes through an array, an array of structures may outperform an array or other collection of class object references by a factor of 2:1; further, the ability to update elements in place may allow an array of structures to outperform any other kind of collection of structures.

Although arrays are not resizable, it is not difficult to have code store an array reference along with the number of elements that are in use, and replace the array with a larger one as required. Alternatively, one could easily write code for a type which behaved much like a List<T> but exposed its backing store, thus allowing one to say either MyPoints.Add(nextPoint); or MyPoints.Items[23].X += 5;. Note that the latter would not necessarily throw an exception if code tried to access beyond the end of the list, but usage would otherwise be conceptually quite similar to List<T>.