Randomize a list of strings in .net

December 09, 2010 C# Snippet
Need to randomize your list or array? Well, here's a snippet for you that will return the list with the items in a random order. It can easily be changed to sort other types of lists (or arrays) as well.
private static Random rng = new Random();

public static List<string> Randomize(List<string> list) {
    byte[] order = new byte[list.Count];
    rng.NextBytes(order);
    string[] tmp = list.ToArray();

    Array.Sort(order, tmp);

    return tmp.ToList<string>();
}

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