Best way of storing an “array of records” at design-time

Question

I have a set of data that I need to store at design-time to construct the contents of a group of components at run-time.

Something like this:

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Answer 1

not an answer but may be a clue: design-time controls can have images and other binary data associated with it, why not write your data to a resource file and read from there? iterating of course, to make it simpler, extensible and more elegant