Demystifying Random Numbers

Microsoft provides good support for random numbers in Visual Basic .NET. The problem, as in so many other parts of VB.NET, is in understanding the documentation they provide. So I've written this article which interprets their doc and consolidates all the common ways of creating random numbers into one article for you. As a bonus, I've also included one method that doesn't work, even though there are a lot of web sites that recommend it. How to use random numbers in Visual Basic .NET programs