New to VB making hangman game

[xiangda]

Hi, for starters i am very new to VB and i am trying to self teach myself(not going to well). i have started a hang man program but i am lost on how to refrence lbls that i have made into a list of lables. the code listed below is a function that adds lables to a form based on a word size. If anyone can help me reference these labels so i can check them and then make them visible it would be very much appriciated. thanks in advance

Dim ret As New List(Of Label)
Dim curtop As Integer = 103
Dim curleft As Integer = 122

For Each C As Char In word
Dim lbl As New Label
lbl.Visible = False
lbl.Text = C
lbl.Top = curtop
lbl.Left = curleft

curleft += 40



ret.Add(lbl)
Next
Return ret.ToArray

End Function

[DataMiser]

You reference the items collection to access an item in the list
i.e

ret.items(index)

You will have to add the labels to the form.controls collection before they will show on the form

[xiangda]

add them as in putting

ME.Controls.AddRange(functionname(word))

that's how i call the function

[tmullin]

here is the hangman game I developed for grades 6-9 for summer computer camp.
http://employee.heartland.edu/tmulli...cNet/index.pdf
the pdf doesn't allow right clicking to get images so change the index.pdf to index.htm. the htm version is not formatted so I don't use it in class. Hope it helps.
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