C# Corner - Mastermind

By Mike Gold

Source Code: Mastermind

Back when C# was in its infancy, and was still in beta, Mike Gold wrote a nice little application to play Mastermind. His original article and original code can still be found at http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/MastermindMG11142005065858AM/MastermindMG.aspx?ArticleID=56bf7bcc-e6cf-461b-8a3a-dfbd180fd8e7.

The code consisted of four classes:

Class	Description
Form1	The main form for the application.
Board	Draws the colour pegboard and calls the ScoreBoard class to draw the score peg column.
ColorPanel	Draws directly onto the form and has a routine for determining which colour is chosen by the user
ScoreBoard	Draws the score pegs.

The code available for download above is written using C# Express and incorporates many of the features written by Mike. It also includes new features added by myself. The code consists of nine classes. Four classes are the same or similar to the orginals:

Class	Description
Form1	The form upon which everything is drawn, determines the chosen pegs and controls whether the guess is correct or not.
PegBoard	Draws the colour pegboard.
ScoreBoard	Draws the score pegs.
LoseForm	Displays the pegs when the player loses.

The other five classes add rules and high scores etc to the game:

Class	Description
EntryForm	High Score Name Entry Form.
HighScoreForm	Form to display the top ten highest scores.
HighScoreEntry	Simple class to store name and associated score.
HighScoreTable	Handles loading and saving of high score table.
RulesForm	Form to display the rules from a rtf file.

Enjoy the game.