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How to Generate Random Numbers in .NET

The steps below describe how to generate random numbers in .NET.

To generate random numbers in a .Net application, we use the framework class "Random". Random is

in the mscorlib library so there is no need to bring any additional namespaces into scope. The
"Random" class provides ve methods used to generate various types of random number.

1. To begin, we Instantiate the Random Class. The class has two constructor overloads. One is the
default constructor (receives no parameters) which uses a time-dependent default seed value to
initialize the class. The second constructor receives an Int32 seed value which is used to initialize
the class.
C#

//Create an instance of the Random class

//Using the Default Constructor
Random r = new Random();
//Or Passing in a seed value
Random r2 = new Random(65);

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'Create an instance of the Random class

'Using the Default Constructor
Dim r As New Random()
'Or Passing in a seed value
Dim r2 As New Random(65)

2. Next we declare some variables to hold the results of the various method calls.
C#

//declare variables to hold the result

int resultInt;
double resultDouble;
byte[] resultBytes = new byte[12];

VB.Net

'declare variables to hold the result

Dim resultInt As Integer
Dim resultDouble As Double
Dim resultBytes(12) As Byte

3. Finally, we exercise each of the methods and retrieve the results

C#

//return a nonnegative random integer

resultInt = r.Next();

//return a random integer between 50 and 100

resultInt = r.Next(50, 100);

//return a nonnegative integer that is less than 2000

resultInt = r.Next(2000);

//return a random floating point integer betweem 0.00 and 1.00

resultDouble= r.NextDouble();

//Fill the array with random numbers

r.NextBytes(resultBytes);

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'return a nonnegative random integer

resultInt = r.Next()

'return a random integer between 50 and 100

resultInt = r.Next(50, 100)

'return a nonnegative integer that is less than 2000

resultInt = r.Next(2000)

'return a random floating point integer betweem 0.00 and 1.00

resultDouble = r.NextDouble()

'Fill the array with random numbers

r.NextBytes(resultBytes)

4. Be aware the Random class is a "psuedo random number generator". In other words, it is not truly
random. The "randomness" does, however, meet certain statistical requirements for random
numbers.

Author: Michael Osborne

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