random selection from an array

Question

I am a real newcomer to c# and do not have previous programming skills but need some help please. I have a winform with pictureboxes and I want to randomly display images in these pictureboxes from an array of images. Is this possible and if so how is it done? Many Thanks

Alan · Answer

First place this static field in your form class: static Random rand = new Random(); Suppose now that 'images' is your Image array and that 'pictureBoxes' is your PictureBox array. I'm assuimg that the number of pictureboxes is less than or equal to the number of images. The following code will place a (different) random image in each PictureBox: bool[] isUsed = new bool[images.Length]; // all false by default int index = 0; do { int imageNum = rand.Next(0 images.Length); // includes 0 but excludes images.Length if (!isUsed[imageNum]) { pictureBoxes[index].Image = images[imageNum]; isUsed[imageNum] = true; index++; } } while (index