I have an old .NET Silverlight project, developed approximately 15 years ago, where the original developer is no longer available. I am looking to make improvements, but for this initial task, I would like to focus on a small but critical modification:- just to see if you can open the source code that no other developer has been able to
**Task:**
- Locate the part of the code where the program reads from a USB hardware random number generator (Alea by Araneus, which is now obsolete).
- Replace the hardware-generated random number retrieval with software-generated random numbers, ensuring that the new implementation provides random numbers within the same range as the Alea hardware previously provided.
**Details:**
- The software currently relies on a USB hardware random number generator from Araneus (Alea), which is no longer manufactured or supported.
- In the source code, you will likely find the string "Alea" or "Araneus.Alea.1" where the Alea COM object is instantiated.
- The code might contain calls to the following methods: `GetRandomByte`, `GetRandomWord`, `GetRandomDouble`, `GetRandomBytes`, `GetRandomWords`, or `GetRandomDoubles`, which are related to generating random data from the Alea device.
- You can refer to the example code available in `windows\activex\examples` on the Alea driver CD (available for download at: [login to view URL]) for further reference.
- After identifying the relevant code, replace these hardware calls with equivalent software-generated random number functions.
**Expectations:**
- If this small modification works out well, there will be more follow-up projects related to enhancing and upgrading this legacy software.
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