Question

I have in DB table Called Students We make some thing like lottery to know which students are going to be the winner in some thing like game in a school

public static List<Students> GetAll()
{
    List<Students> list = new List<Students>();
    var query = from c in new HsInternetDBDataContext().Students
                orderby c.DateCreated ascending
                select c;
    foreach (DAL.Student dr in query.ToList())
    {
        l.Add(new Quotes(dr));
    }
    return list;
}

what i want to do is to retrieve random student from this table

Answer 1

the same question are posted in another blog and i quote the answer when i post it :

public static Quotes GetRandomStudents()
{
    HsInternetDBDataContext db = new HsInternetDBDataContext();

    var query = from c in db.Students select c;
    int count = query.Count();
    if (query.Count() > 0)
    {
        Random r = new Random();
        return new Students(query.ToList()[r.Next(0, count)]);
    }
    else
    {
        return new Students();
    }
}

Hope that helps because it works with another one has the same situation