title: How to create an array of buttons in C++
body: <p>I'm using C++ in VS2005 and have an 8x8 grid of buttons on a form. I want to have these buttons in an array, so when I click on any of them it will open the same event handler (I think that is what they are called), but I will know the index of which one was clicked on. I know how to do this in VB and C#, but I can't seem to figure it out with C++
  Right now I have all my buttons labelled by their location, i.e. b00, b10, b21, etc. So I think what I am looking for is a way to do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Button b[8][8]; //this causes me errors (error C2728: 'System::Windows::Forms::Button' : a native array cannot contain this managed type) and (error C2227: left of '-&gt;{ctor}' must point to class/struct/union/generic type)   
  
  void Assignment(){
  b[0][0] = b00;
  b[1][0] = b10;
  ...
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then in form1.h:</p>
  
  <pre><code>private: System::Void b_Click(System::Object^  sender, System::EventArgs^  e) {
  //somehow read the coordinates into variables x and y
  //do something based on these values
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated. Also let me know if I am going in the complete wrong direction with this. Thanks!</p>