How to generate a random integer in a specific range in Visual Basic

[bastones]

Doing this in Visual Basic is slightly more inviolved:

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Randomize()
        Dim moneyMade = Int(5 * Rnd() + 5)
        MsgBox(moneyMade)
    End Sub

End Class

In this example, this is being done in a Button1 click event. Note here that the Randomize() subroutine is first executed; this is required to randomised the integer values returned, for further information see: Randomize Function (Visual Basic).

Next, we declare a new variable and the Int() function returns an integer-portion of a number (i.e. getting rid of any decimal places etc).

The 5 * Rnd() + 5 ensures that what is returned is between 5 and 10. The Rnd() returns between 0 and 0.99 (i.e. less than 1 but more than or equal to 0). For more information on Rnd() see: Rnd Function (Visual Basic)

Hope this helps.