How to "randomize"?

[Minecraftnate]

How would I go about making a button that when pressed selects a random item from a long list of items?
Please explain in detail .

[sanjon]

I am not a professional so please excuse me if I'm wrong But you could give this a try:

Put this right under "Public Class Form1":

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Dim randomizer As New Random
Dim random As Integer
Dim list As New List(Of String) From {"first item", "second item", "etc."}


You can add or change the items in the list.

Then put this code where ever you want the random item from the list to be selected:

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random = randomizer.Next(0, 3)
MessageBox.Show(list(random))


In the line "random = randomizer.Next(0, 3)", you have to change the "3" to how many items are on the list. And you don't have to put the second line. Instead of putting the results in a Messagebox you can just display them on a label by writing "Label1.text = list(random)"

Hope this helped!