How to get a random item from the tree given a parent node?

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Published on 2010-04-06T19:47:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 20:03 UTC
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I have a scenario where I would like to randomize the display of some items. Given a Parent item, how can I randomly select one of its child items?

Of course I could load ALL the children and apply some random index or whatnot... but that would be wildly inefficient.

I'm wondering if this is also inefficient:

Parent.Children[random(Parent.Children.Count)]?

At what point do the items get loaded when you access Parent.Children?

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