A Programmer's Guide to .NET

5.2. System.Random class

The System.Random class serves as a pseudo-random number generator. We can use this class to get a random number – either decimal or whole random numbers. To generate such numbers we can use the Next()method to return a random number, NextDouble() to return a Double random number between 0.0 and 1.0 (the number will be greater than or equal to 0.0 and less than 1.0), or NextBytes(Byte() ) to fill the elements of a specified array of bytes with random numbers. The following example illustrates how to use these methods to generate random numbers – both Double and Integers:

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