If you use this code, please give Protiguous some credit. (Too bad adSense doesn't allow one to ask for clicks. Because that'd be cooler!)
Explanation:
- Initialize a newly seeded rng with an overkill of LINQ.
- Initialize a thread safe access control.
- Generate a list of names for each defined enum.
- ... and return one of those enums.
Here is some untested sample code:
enum ourEnums { One, Two, Three, Four, Five };
//I know we could use a for loop, but I love foreach so much more..
foreach ( var i in Enumerable.Range( 0, 10 ) ) {
Console.WriteLine( RandEnum() );
}
Note: If there are any uppercase/lowercase/typos... let's just blame it on blogspot/browser/politics/etc... as always: It Works On My Machine.
And here is my sample code for returning a random enum in C#:
namespace Examples {
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
public class Example {
private static readonly Random oti = new Random( Guid.NewGuid().ToByteArray().Sum( b => b * b.GetHashCode() ) );
private static readonly ReaderWriterLockSlim otia = new ReaderWriterLockSlim( LockRecursionPolicy.SupportsRecursion );
public static T RandEnum() {
if ( !typeof( T ).IsEnum ) { return default( T ); }
var names = Enum.GetNames( typeof( T ) );
try { otia.EnterWriteLock(); return ( T )Enum.Parse( typeof( T ), names[ oti.Next( 0, names.Length ) ] ); }
finally { otia.ExitWriteLock(); }
}
}
}
