Random Filenames

[Amy]

Does anyone know if thier is anything built in the framework to generate
random filenames?

I have a dataset(hash table) that grows very large. After a certain point a
good portion of the elements will not be used anymore until the end of the
program. In order to conserve memory I wanted to write out the current data
in the hash table to a file.

Any thoughts?
Amy

 

[Arran Pearce]

Probably not the best way but in one application i did a while ago i
generated a GUID and used that & the current date/time as a file name.

 

[timtos]

Thanks!
Greetings, timtos.

Use System.Guid.NewGuid() method to get a new GUID object.

Regards,

Artur

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[Simon Bayling]

You could try Path.GetTempFileName() under System.IO

"Returns a unique temporary file name and creates a zero-byte file by that
name on disk."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemiopathclassgettempfilenametopic.asp

Cheers,
Simon.