I have run into a few issues with a program of mine. It is a school assignment and I've gotten most of the code down but I'm running into compiler errors. I am to create a tic tac toe simulator (no human players) track the game with a 2d array and then delcare a winner. I had my code running ok but then started to break things up into differnet objects and I think I've messed it up. I keep getting comiler errors that say:

Error   1   'System.Drawing.Point' does not contain a definition for 'x' and no extension method 'x' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Drawing.Point' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Unit7\Unit7\Form1.cs 119 23  Unit7
Error   3   'System.Drawing.Point' does not contain a definition for 'x' and no extension method 'x' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Drawing.Point' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Unit7\Unit7\Form1.cs 128 35Unit7
Error   2   'System.Drawing.Point' does not contain a definition for 'y' and no extension method 'y' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Drawing.Point' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Unit7\Unit7\Form1.cs 120 23  Unit7
Error   7   Cannot convert null to 'System.Drawing.Point' because it is a non-nullable value type   C:\Users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Unit7\Unit7\Form1.cs 139 20  Unit7
Error   4   The name 'gameBoard' does not exist in the current context  C:\Users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Unit7\Unit7\Form1.cs 134 21  Unit7
Error   5   The name 'y' does not exist in the current context  C:\Users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Unit7\Unit7\Form1.cs 134 34  Unit7
Error   6   The name 'y' does not exist in the current context  C:\Users\documents\visual studio 2013\Projects\Unit7\Unit7\Form1.cs 136 41  Unit7

The other thing I have had issues with is that I can't seem to change the size of the x's and o' so that they are bigger and more alligned than they are now, and I would like to have lines that denote the board on screen if i could too but I'm not sure I know how to do that. I searched and with no luck in a way to help this.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Kim_Johnson_Unit7
{
    public partial class TTT_frm : Form
    {
        private Random Generated = new Random();
        private Point LastMove;
        private const int Board_Size = 3;
        const int Squares = 9;
        char[] XorO = new char[Squares];

        public TTT_frm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void TTT_frm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void Sim_btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Erase contents of Array
            for (int i = 0; i < Squares; i++)
            {
                XorO[i] = ' ';
            }
            //Erase contents of Results label
            Result_lbl.Text = " ";

            //Set fist and second player X's and O's
            char FirstPlayer = 'O';
            char SecondPlayer = 'X';

            //Generate the random numbers for the grid
            int[] position = new int[5];
            position[0] = Generated.Next(9);
            for (int i = 1; i < 5; i++)
            {
                int temp = Generated.Next(9);
                for (int j = 0; j < i; j++)
                {
                    if (temp == position[j])
                    {
                        i--;
                        break;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        position[i] = temp;
                    }
                }
            }

            //Get first players positions
            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            {
                XorO[position[i]] = FirstPlayer;
            }

            for (int i = 0; i < Squares; i++)
            {
                if (XorO[i] != FirstPlayer)
                {
                    XorO[i] = SecondPlayer;
                }
            }

            //Put the X's or O's in the labels
            A1_lbl.Text = XorO[0].ToString();
            A2_lbl.Text = XorO[1].ToString();
            A3_lbl.Text = XorO[2].ToString();
            B1_lbl.Text = XorO[3].ToString();
            B2_lbl.Text = XorO[4].ToString();
            B3_lbl.Text = XorO[5].ToString();
            C1_lbl.Text = XorO[6].ToString();
            C2_lbl.Text = XorO[7].ToString();
            C3_lbl.Text = XorO[8].ToString();

            //See Who Won
            switch(Winner())
            {
                case 'O':
                    Result_lbl.Text = "O Wins!";
                    break;
                case 'x':
                    Result_lbl.Text = "x Wins!";
                    break;
                case 'T':
                    Result_lbl.Text = "It Was a Tie!";
                    break;
             }            
        }

        private void GenerateNextStep(char playerChar, char[][] gameBoard)
        {
            int x;
            int y;

            if (LastMove ==null)
            {
                //Is the first move and can place anywhere
                x = Generated.Next() % Board_Size;
                y = Generated.Next() % Board_Size;
            }
            else
            {
                Point p = FindClosest();
                x = p.x;
                y = p.y;
            }
            gameBoard[x][y] = playerChar;
            LastMove = new Point(x, y);
        }

        private Point FindClosest()
        {
            for (int x = LastMove.x - 1; x < x +1; x++)
            {
                if (x < 0 || x >= Board_Size)
                {
                    continue;
                }
                if (gameBoard[x][y] == ' ')
                {
                    return new Point(x, y);
                }
            }
            return null;
        }


        private char Winner()
        {
            //Return result of game so that a determination can be made
            //Returns X, O or T
            char winner = ' ';
            int Win_Sequence = 0;

            //Columns
            if (XorO[0].Equals(XorO[3]) && XorO[0].Equals(XorO[6]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[0];
            }
            if (XorO[1].Equals(XorO[4]) && XorO[1].Equals(XorO[7]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[1];
            }
            if (XorO[2].Equals(XorO[5]) && XorO[2].Equals(XorO[8]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[2];
            }

            //Rows
            if (XorO[0].Equals(XorO[1]) && XorO[0].Equals(XorO[2]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[0];
            }
            if (XorO[3].Equals(XorO[4]) && XorO[3].Equals(XorO[5]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[3];
            }
            if (XorO[6].Equals(XorO[7]) && XorO[6].Equals(XorO[8]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[6];
            }

            //Diagonal
            if (XorO[0].Equals(XorO[4]) && XorO[0].Equals(XorO[8]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[0];
            }
            if (XorO[2].Equals(XorO[4]) && XorO[2].Equals(XorO[8]))
            {
                Win_Sequence++;
                winner = XorO[2];
            }

            if (Win_Sequence == 0 || Win_Sequence > 1)
            {
                winner = 'T';
            }

            return winner;
        }

        private void Exit_btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Close();
        }
    }
}

Try Upper case X and Y

commented: Agreed, This can be verified by examining the System.Drawing.Point class. +0

In here:

            x = p.x;
            y = p.y;

The Point properties are X and Y, not x and y.

In here:

        private Point FindClosest()
        {
           for (int x = LastMove.x - 1; x < x +1; x++)
            {
                if (x < 0 || x >= Board_Size)
                {
                    continue;
                }
                if (gameBoard[x][y] == ' ')
                {
                    return new Point(x, y);
                }
            }
            return null;
        }

A Point object is not nullable, therefore you can't return null. You could try

return new Point();

If you would like to draw grid lines, and easily change the size of the Xs and Os, I would suggest maybe using a different Windows Form Component to something along the lines of a DataGridView. Back in college we had to develop a Sudoku game, and this was the component I used for our project.

What's also nice about that is you can techically do something like dataGridView1.Rows[0].Cells[0].Value.ToString() to get the value of the grid piece, or if you take off the Value piece, you'll see there are other options you can do to interact with the cell. I bring this up because if you were to use this, it would be easier to use just the DataGridView, and not try and have a 2D array as well as the DataGridView (unless you continue to generate it ahead of time, but then you just index through and populate the DataGridView)

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