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CoCreateGuid .net style

For an app I needed some GUID's at runtime. In the COM days I used the CoCreateGuid for that. In .NET it is much simpler, it is even so simple I overlooked it and spent far to long looking for a way to import the COM stuff in my code. So let me share what I found in the help file.

The Guid class has a static meber which will get me my guid:

aanmelding.ReplyGuid = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

This one-liner generates a new guid and puts it in string format into my field. That's all.

Peter

Published Apr 07 2004, 09:32 AM by pvanooijen

Comments

Scott Galloway said:

I recently published a little code snippet which helps you do it the other way (with format validation...). You can find it here:
http://www.mostlylucid.co.uk/posts/946.aspx

# April 7, 2004 5:46 AM

Peter said:

Cool, I could use that to see if the guid the FCL has generated for me is valid. :>
In my case everything is valid as long as it has a high propabillity of being unique.

# April 7, 2004 10:10 AM

Jeff said:

What type of class do you need to declare aanmaelding as?

# June 9, 2004 10:52 AM

Peter van Ooijen said:

Aanmelding is a class describing a subscription appliance. I needed a unique ID for the confirmation e-mail. As subject for the mail, so its just a string.

The point was you can do with the guid whatever you like.

# June 9, 2004 2:57 PM