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(); } } } }
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