A list consists of items or rows, and columns or fields, that contain data. Use the Items property to return the collection of items in the list, and use the Fields property to return the collection of fields in the list.
Various List properties, ParentList properties, and other properties or methods for classes in the Microsoft.SharePoint namespace return a list or collection of lists from a specific context. Otherwise, use the Lists property of either the SPWeb or SPList class to return an SPListCollection object that represents either the collection of lists in a site or the collection of parent lists for a list. Use an indexer to return a single list from the collection. For example, if the collection is assigned to a variable named collLists, use collLists[index] in C#, or collLists(index) in Visual Basic 2005, where index is the index number of the list in the collection, the display name of the list, or the GUID of the list.