Time for action – creating the GameBoard.cs class

1. As you did to create the GamePiece class, right-click on Flood Control in Solution Explorer and select Add | Class.... Name the new class file GameBoard.vb.

2. Add the following declarations to the GameBoard class:

   Private rand As New Random()
   
   Public Const GameBoardWidth As Integer = 7
   Public Const GameBoardHeight As Integer = 9
   
   Private playingPieces As Texture2D
   Private emptyPiece As Rectangle
   
   Private boardSquares(GameBoardWidth, GameBoardHeight) As GamePiece
   
   Private waterTracker As New List(Of Vector2)()

What just happened?

We used the Random class in SquareChase to generate random numbers. Since we will need to randomly generate pieces to add to the game board, we need an instance of Random in the GameBoard class.

The Texture2D (playingPieces) and the Rectangle (emptyPiece) will be passed in when the class is created and hold the sprite sheet used to draw the board and the location of the sheet's empty piece square.

The two constants and the...