Question

I have a litte problem here. I have a two-dimensional array which is [5,5] big.
I have a windows form with 25 buttons. Now I want to store the buttons in the object array, but my problem is, how do I tell the program to know which button to put in the array? Is it possible in some kind of this way:

//_array[i] = button(i);

This is my first time storing objects in an array and I dont know how to do that.

EDIT: The buttons have all the standard names (button1,button,button3…)

EDIT2: I know how to it by hand (_array[x,y] = button1) but I want to know how to it ith a for-loop.

Answer 1

You could filter the controls by using IEnumerable.OfType():

//get all buttons and order them by name
var buttons = Controls.OfType<Button>().OrderBy(x => x.Name).ToList();

for(int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
   for(int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
        _array[i, j] = buttons[i*5+j];