Just about every project I have had a need a need to create some seed data. It’s a pain to come up with good seed data, especially around names of people.
The is the main purpose behind the SeedData.cs class that I wrote to create random names of people. A quick search brought me to data gathered in the
1990 census. There were over 80,000 last names and 5000 first names. Pretty good mix for generating seed data.
I also added the capability to read in a file delimited by crlf to support creating other seed data based on lists in text files.
If you add any other seed data files, send the updates to me and I will post them.
SeedData.zip