Question

This is really weird, and I cannot see why this is happening. In the foreach cycle, I am iterating through a class A collection, and for each class, I call the Count() method, where r1 and r2 numbers are generated from range [-1,1]. The problem is that Random.Next returns the same “random” numbers for each instance. When the results for the first instance are 0 and -1, the same ones will be returned from following instances. Please, could you tell me why this is happening? Also, I cannot get different results in each class A instance. This is the code:

class a
{
 Random rnd = new Random();
 private void Count()
 {
  int r1 = rnd.Next(-1, 1);
  int r2 = rnd.Next(-1, 1);
 }
}
class b
{
 List<a> listofA=new list<a>();
 foreach (a ACLASS in listofA)
 {
  ACLASS.Count();
 }
}

Answer 1

The problem is that you are creating instances of the Random class too close in time.

When you create a Random object, it’s seeded with a value from the system clock. If you create Random instances too close in time, they will all be seeded with the same random sequence.

Create a single Random object and pass its reference to the constructor when you create instances of the “a” class, instead of creating one Random object for each “a” instance.