Dynamically programming a grid consisting of 64 buttons (8x8)

I'm trying to create a chess game purely for my learning C# and chess. Just to start off with, I would like to create an 8x8 grid of buttons through code rather than the designer. This would save me hard coding each button ind开发者_运维百科ividually.

A button array would seem a good way to start but I have no idea how to implement this.

You can create a "square" class:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;


class Square:PictureBox
{
   private bool color;
   private char piece;
}

and define an array to make place for 8x8 squares.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
 Square[,] square = new Square[8, 8];

 public Form1()
 {
  InitializeComponent();
  int i, j;

  for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
  {
     for (j = 0; j < 8; j++)
     {
       this.square[i, j] = new Square();//Creating the chess object//
       this.square[i, j].BackColor = System.Drawing.SystemColors.ActiveCaption;
       this.square[i, j].BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
       this.square[i, j].Location = new System.Drawing.Point(57 + i * 40, 109 + j * 40);
       this.square[i, j].Name = "chessBox1";
       this.square[i, j].Size = new System.Drawing.Size(40, 40);
       this.square[i, j].TabIndex = 2;
       this.square[i, j].TabStop = false;
       this.Controls.Add(this.square[i, j]);
     }
  }
 }
}

        int ButtonWidth = 40;
        int ButtonHeight = 40;
        int Distance = 20;
        int start_x = 10;
        int start_y = 10;

        for (int x = 0; x < 8; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < 8; y++)
            {
                Button tmpButton = new Button();
                tmpButton.Top = start_x + (x * ButtonHeight + Distance);
                tmpButton.Left = start_y + (y * ButtonWidth + Distance);
                tmpButton.Width = ButtonWidth;
                tmpButton.Height = ButtonHeight;
                tmpButton.Text = "X: " + x.ToString() + " Y: " + y.ToString();
                // Possible add Buttonclick event etc..
                this.Controls.Add(tmpButton);
            }

        }

May be you ca use the code below to solve your problem. This code is of Windows Form application in C#. And for the control Button.

    for (int i = 0; i< 8; i++)    
{
    for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++)
      {
        Button BtnNew = new Button;
        BtnNew.Height = 80;
        BtnNew.Width = 80;
        BtnNew.Location = new Point(80*i, 80*j);
        this.Controls.Add(BtnNew);
       }
}