TableLayoutPanel Controls.Add Problem

Question

I have a TableLayputPanel with 2 columns and 4 rows and I'm trying to add buttons to it at runtime. I want to dynamically add each button to the first cell:

private int nextIndex = 1;

private void bAddButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Button newButton = new Button();
    newButton.Text = nextIndex.ToString();
    tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(newButton, 0, 0);  // first cell
    nextIndex++;
}

As I understand it this should shifts all existing buttons up a cell. This seems to work the first three times but after that is inserts the new button into the 2nd cell a few times then the 3rd cell, then the 4th etc...

Is there a limit on how many times you can call Controls.Add(ctrl, column, row) for a given cell?

I bit stuck, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

To add a number of buttons to a single cell you need to add a panel as the only control in the cell and then add your buttons to that panel.