Data Entity Random Database Record
You've seen those random quotes on pages, probably most of them are done with Javascript. This one is done using a database table (three fields, id, linenumber,linetext) and a data entity call and features the SKIP method. You have to have an orderby in your query to be able to use SKIP So put a label on the page or webcontrol and format it as you wish From the page load call the function to get the data lblRandom.InnerText = getrandomvalue(); public string getrandomvalue() { using (my_maintenanceEntities context = new my_maintenanceEntities()) { var query = (from c in context.tbl_texttable orderby c.LineNumber ...