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Is there a method I can call to generate a random number?
Nov 16 '05 #1
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Hi Roger,

Check out the System.Random class.

Joe
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Nov 16 '05 #2
Roger wrote:
Is there a method I can call to generate a random number?


System.Random r = new Random();
int random = r.Next();
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Nov 16 '05 #3
I have a little example program which explains random number on my web site
with a link at the bottom of the page to the place on the msdn site also.
http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/dice01.html

Hope this helps

Publicjoe
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C# Ebook at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/samples/ebook.html
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