Generating random, unique values C#

Question

I\'ve searched for a while and been struggling to find this, I\'m trying to generate several random, unique numbers is C#. I\'m using System.Random, and I\'m us

Answer 1

This console app will let you shuffle the alphabet five times with different orders.

using System;
using System.Linq;

namespace Shuffle
{
    class Program
    {
        static Random rnd = new Random();
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var alphabet = new string[] { "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z" };
            Console.WriteLine("Alphabet : {0}", string.Join(",", alphabet)); 
            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            {
                var shuffledAlphabet = GetShuffledAlphabet(alphabet);
                Console.WriteLine("SHUFFLE {0}: {1}", i, string.Join(",", shuffledAlphabet));
            }
        }

        static string[] GetShuffledAlphabet(string[] arr)
        {
            int?[] uniqueNumbers = new int?[arr.Length];
            string[] shuffledAlphabet = new string[arr.Length];

            for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++)
            {
                int uniqueNumber = GenerateUniqueNumber(uniqueNumberArrays);
                uniqueNumberArrays[i] = uniqueNumber;
                newArray[i] = arr[uniqueNumber];
            }

            return shuffledAlphabet;
        }

        static int GenerateUniqueNumber(int?[] uniqueNumbers)
        {
            int number = rnd.Next(uniqueNumbers.Length);

            if (!uniqueNumbers.Any(r => r == number))
            {
                return number;
            }

            return GenerateUniqueNumber(uniqueNumbers);
        }
    }
}