asked on 5/22/2012

Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow

Trying to create a random number with this line of code but it gives me this error. This is the number it creates "634732955157479720"

Private Shared randomNumGen As Random = New System.Random(CLng(DateTime.Now.Ticks - DateTime.Now.Millisecond))

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Ruffone

5/22/2012

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Ruffone

5/22/2012

ASKER

This fixed it for me

Private Shared random As New Random(CInt(DateTime.Now.Ticks And Integer.MaxValue))

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Ruffone

5/22/2012

ASKER

Thanks

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