Collection/list problem

Hi,

I'm having a problem while adding objects to a collection. (VB.net 2005)
I am reading data in from a file to a temporary variable (eg MyClass) and
then adding it to a collection.
When I then enumerate the collection, all the entries are equal to the last
one added.
The same thing happens with lists and with a generic list(of type).
Obviously the collection or list is storing a reference to the variable,
rather than the values - hence all the items refer to the same variable.

I am probably missing something really basic - please be patient :-)

Many TIA

example:

Public Class MyThing
name as String
Value as integer
end class

Dim MyClass as New MyThing
Dim MyCollection as New Collection

'open file
'do
' read in name, value
MyClass.name=NameFromFile
MyClass.value=ValueFromFile
MyCollection.Add(MyClass)
'loop to end of file
'close file



.

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