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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

C# - Generate random number

Sometimes we need to generate a random number in our application for various purpose (such as, to use it as a part of unique key, etc).

There is a quick way in C#, that can generate a random number. Here, you can also specify the range within which the random number should be generated.

int generatedRandomNumber = new Random(System.DateTime.Now.Millisecond).Next(int.MinValue, int.MaxValue);

This will generate a random number within the range of -2147483648 and 2,147,483,647. But you can narrow down your range to only positive values or some explicit range by changing the parameters in Next function above.

Hope it does help!