how to make a c# thread-safe random number generator

Question

I have a loop in my code

Parallel.For(0, Cnts.MosqPopulation, i => { DoWork() });

however in the DoWork() function, there a

Answer 1

You can inherit from Random to build a thread safe random class

public class ThreadsafeRandom : Random
{
    private readonly object _lock = new object();

    public ThreadsafeRandom() : base() { }
    public ThreadsafeRandom( int Seed ) : base( Seed ) { }

    public override int Next()
    {
        lock ( _lock )
        {
            return base.Next();
        }
    }

    public override int Next( int maxValue )
    {
        lock ( _lock )
        {
            return base.Next( maxValue );
        }
    }

    public override int Next( int minValue, int maxValue )
    {
        lock ( _lock )
        {
            return base.Next( minValue, maxValue );
        }
    }

    public override void NextBytes( byte[ ] buffer )
    {
        lock ( _lock )
        {
            base.NextBytes( buffer );
        }
    }

    public override double NextDouble()
    {
        lock ( _lock )
        {
            return base.NextDouble();
        }
    }
}

and use an instance of that class

public static class Utils
{
    public static readonly Random random = new ThreadsafeRandom();

}