Random Filenames

[Amy]

Does anyone know if thier is anything built in the framework to generate
random filenames?

I have a dataset(hash table) that grows very large. After a certain point a
good portion of the elements will not be used anymore until the end of the
program. In order to conserve memory I wanted to write out the current data
in the hash table to a file.

Any thoughts?
Amy

[Arran Pearce]

Probably not the best way but in one application i did a while ago i
generated a GUID and used that & the current date/time as a file name.

"Greg Ewing [MVP]" <gewing@_NO_SPAM_claritycon.com> wrote in message
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Amy, you could use a TempFileCollection to create files whose names are
'random'. You could also use the GetTempFileName method off of the Path
class in System.IO. A third option would be to wrap the win32 API
GetTempFileName(). Hope that gives you some ideas to do what you want.

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Greg Ewing [MVP]
http://www.claritycon.com/

"Amy" <am**@paxemail.com> wrote in message
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Does anyone know if thier is anything built in the framework to generate
random filenames?

I have a dataset(hash table) that grows very large. After a certain point

a

good portion of the elements will not be used anymore until the end of

the program. In order to conserve memory I wanted to write out the current

data

in the hash table to a file.

Any thoughts?
Amy

[Simon Bayling]

You could try Path.GetTempFileName() under System.IO

"Returns a unique temporary file name and creates a zero-byte file by that
name on disk."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l=/library/en-
us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemiopathclassgettempfilenametopic.asp

Cheers,
Simon.

Does anyone know if thier is anything built in the framework to
generate random filenames?