[mattcash83]

OK, so I am creating a bit of code that will allow me to randomly pick one "card" from a "deck", delete that "card" from the deck, and repeat. I found in all of my research that vb.net has the arraylist that is supposed to be very simple in these situations. However, when I try to populate them with a For Each statement, I only get odd numbers in the array list. What am I missing?

    Dim a As New ArrayList

        For i As Integer = 1 To 52
            a.Add(i)
            i = i + 1
        Next

        For Each number As Integer In a
            Debug.Print(number)
        Next

The debug.Print shows me that I only got these numbers to populate:
1
3
5
7
9
11
13
15
17
19
21
23
25
27
29
31
33
35
37
39
41
43
45
47
49
51

[sela007]

    For i As Integer = 1 To 52
        a.Add(i)
        i = i + 1
    Next

look carefully,whats wrong here?

[mattcash83]

Makes me wish I had not posted this now... I think I will quit staring at the screen for now. Thanks.

[sela007]

can happen to anyone,... And I recommend you to use List (OF Integer) rather than ArrayList.

[mattcash83]

sela007

Thanks. You mentioned using List(OfInteger), I am unfamiliar with this. While I start to research this, could you explain why you suggested it over the arraylist?

[sela007]

It's all about performance and memory. Read this ArrayList and List Collection Types