how to use a list as a property

The code in your original question had the other problems that I described. Please in the future, post the correct code. If you post incorrect code, then you waste the time of people trying to help you.
 
I did show in my reply that you need to instantiate the object. Please mark my response as the answer.

thanks guy. I actually found my problem.  I was simply forgetting to instantiate the obj.  I needed this.
           
            myCompany.myList = new List();
            myCompany.myList.Add(jim);

Yeah sorry about the case and scope typos I had earlier.  I was in a hurry.  here's my code from visual studio that I was running.

        public class Person
        {
            public string fName;
            public string lName;
        }

        public class Company
        {
            public List myList { get; set; }
        }

        public Window1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            Person jim = new Person { fName = "jimmy", lName = "bridger" };

            Company myCompany = new Company();
            myCompany.myList.Add(jim);          //  stops here when stepping through..

        }

It still isn't working do you guys have any ideas?  I would prefer to keep "myList" as a property.

C# is case sensitive, that being said if list was not already defined some where else it would not have compiled, would it!!

C# is case-sensitive, which means that add is not Add and list is not List. You must be precise with C#, even if you don't like it. Another problem is that if you want to use a member from outside the class, you must make the member public. Also, you must allocate objects. The following works.

class Company

{

	List _employees = new List();

	public List employees

	{

		get { return _employees; }

		set { _employees = value; }

	}

}



	static void Main(string[] args)

	{

		Company myCompany = new Company();

		myCompany.employees.Add("jim");

		myCompany.employees.Add("sue");

	}