>>>>I want to store an ID of a tablet (e.g. iPad, Android, etc.) into a local storage of the browser. Then at run-time, my app will get this ID string and use it to get/set certain data on the web server that will "belong" to this or that device. I found some threads on Stackoverflow with sophisticated methods of generating a random string. Since I am dealing with 10 (or 20 at most) devices, I believe, this level of complexity is too much. Can you suggest a simple method of creating/getting a string of about 10 alphanumeric characters, from .net application? For example, "ABC123", "CBGHHD", and so on.
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>>>I am using this:
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>>> ' Return a GUID
>>> Public Function GetGUID() As String
>>> Return Guid.NewGuid.ToString()
>>> End Function
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>>Quick search on the web shows that the resulting string is quite long. If I don't find anything else, this should work. Too bad that this function does not have an overload to make the string shorter.
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>>Thank you!
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>The shorter it is the higher the risk of duplicates. For your purposes (just an ID for a device) the length isn't really a factor. I'd go with GUID......
I am considering both a short ID and a long one, GUID. Thank you.
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