CryptographicBuffer.GenerateRandom(UInt32) Method

public:
 static IBuffer ^ GenerateRandom(unsigned int length);

 static IBuffer GenerateRandom(uint32_t const& length);

public static IBuffer GenerateRandom(uint length);

function generateRandom(length)

Public Shared Function GenerateRandom (length As UInteger) As IBuffer

Parameters

Returns

Output buffer that contains the random data.

Examples

using Windows.Security.Cryptography;
using Windows.Storage.Streams;

namespace Random
{
 sealed partial class GenerateRandomDataApp : Application
 {
 public GenerateRandomDataApp()
 {
 // Initialize the application.
 this.InitializeComponent();

 // Create a buffer that contains random data.
 String strRndHex = this.GenerateRndData();

 // Create a random integer.
 UInt32 uRnd = this.GenerateRndNumber();
 }

 public String GenerateRndData()
 {
 // Define the length, in bytes, of the buffer.
 UInt32 length = 32;

 // Generate random data and copy it to a buffer.
 IBuffer buffer = CryptographicBuffer.GenerateRandom(length);

 // Encode the buffer to a hexadecimal string (for display).
 String hexRnd = CryptographicBuffer.EncodeToHexString(buffer);

 return hexRnd;
 }

 public UInt32 GenerateRndNumber()
 {
 // Generate a random number.
 UInt32 Rnd = CryptographicBuffer.GenerateRandomNumber();

 return Rnd;
 }
 }
}