Team Blam-GridCode

Paste this into a Visual C# project and it will draw a bounding box for a grid of X's

• If you have any changes / upgrades to this code, post here for the benefit of others*
  • Edit: Updated it to use an array for grid storage**

/*
 * Basic char array grid creator
 * Created by: Andrew Condinho
 * 9/30/2010
 */

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

namespace Console_Move
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //create array to hold grid coordinates
            char[,] gridArray = new char[20, 20];

            //populate grid -- !!!replace this with a grid generator!!!
            for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
            {
                gridArray[0, i] = 'x';
                gridArray[19, i] = 'x';
            }

            for (int i = 1; i < 19; i++)
            {
                gridArray[i, 0] = 'x';
                gridArray[i, 19] = 'x';
            }

            drawGrid(gridArray);

            //Grid is useable starting at 1,1
            //corner co-ords are
            //TL: 1,1
            //TR: 19,1
            //BL: 1,18
            //BR: 19,18

            Console.SetCursorPosition(0, 21);
            Console.WriteLine("All done");

        }

        static void drawGrid(char [,] gArray)
        {
            int hop = 1;
            for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
            {
                for (int x = 0; x < 20; x++)
                {
                    Console.Write(gArray[i, x]);
                }
                Console.SetCursorPosition(0, hop++);
            }
        }

    }
}