Building an array in Visual Basic ^.0

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how exactly to build an array of numbers and randomize the numbers?

For a program Im writing I am allocating jobs to a number of 5 engineers, scheduled services of machinery in a beef production plant.

I have a list 9 weekly services to be done which I am corresponding to numbers (1,2,3,4 etc) then I have to randomize those numbers and alloacate them evenly out to 5 engineers. My college tutor says its like shuffling cards and handing them to 5 players in a card game which is true but that doesnt help me code it. Can anyone help?