Creating several instances and later access them

Question

Hi this is more of a general question and I would hope that you can give me some best-practice or refer me to a good page with this kind of information. I'm working on a poker client right now and when the server is being started it should create X tables so that the Lobby (for the user) is not empty so when the program starts on the server it creates 6 tables which can be found in the lobby however how should the user access the right table? All tables have an unique ID but I'm having problem what is a good approach here. Thanks in advance Tomas

Tomas Westerlund · Answer

I can show you what I have done so far: When the program is being Initialized it runs this method: DataTable allTables = sql.RetrieveAllTables(); for (int i = 0; i { DataRow row = allTables.Rows[i]; int tableID = Convert.ToInt32(row[TableID]); Classes.Gameplay.Table temp = new Classes.Gameplay.Table(tableID); tables.Add(tableID temp); } It is far from completed but the idea is that I will always have atleast two tables of each poker form (Texas and Omaha for example) and for each stake (10/20 and 25/50 for example) that will be created when the server (the program) is restarted. The tables are being loaded into the lobby and when I double click one table this code is being runned and opens up the table: //Return the selected Row: DataRow row = ((DataRowView)listViewLobbyMataAses.SelectedItem).Row; //Return the value from the first column (TableID) int ID = Convert.ToInt32(row[0]); Classes.Gameplay.Table t; if (tables.TryGetValue(ID out t)) { t.StartMataAsesTable(2); } Do you think this is a good approach? Best regards Tomas