Question

I’ve written some code to generate a sequence of random characters, but it does not:

        byte[] sbytes = { 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 };
        String sstring;
        System.Random r = new System.Random();

        r.NextBytes(sbytes);
        sstring = Convert.ToBase64String(sbytes);

        sstring = Path.GetRandomFileName();

        sstring = sstring.Replace("=", "");
        sstring = sstring.Replace(".", "");

        textBox1.Text = sstring.ToString();

I believe the problem is between NextBytes and ToBase64String. I don’t know how to make this work. How do you do the correct conversion to pass it to a textbox for display?

Answer 1

If you want to generate a random password here’s a great example. And here’s another one which is more naive. Simply forget about the Path.GetRandomFileName function.