When developing, testing, or showcasing something it’s often important to use data that is not real data. Either because you might not have actual data available yet or because you don’t want to show or pick the data from real users which can contain sensitive information. Faker.Net can help make this possible by making it very simple to get a lot of random names, addresses, emails, etc. In this article, we will show the range of possible values it can create and how to use them.

Quick history

The .NET library was initially a port of the 2009 version of the Ruby library Faker but has diverged in many ways. The Ruby library was itself a port of the Perl library Data::Faker from 2007. The library keeps being used and is updated to newer versions of .NET continuously. The cause for its continued use is probably due to its many use cases and very simple structure.

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