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Generating a GUID - 4/17/2008 3:24:53 AM

TNO

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While developing my new scripting component, I came across the problem of generating GUIDs. If it was going to be a component like any other I would have just used the WSC wizard to create one. But since I have multiple ProgID and multiple components all in one file the wizard just wasn't going to cut it. I tried searched the MSDN archives and couldn't find a tool that could generate one (without having to download some ungodly SDK package). Little did I know that right under my nose there was functionality available:

Isn't it strange that the simplest problems are sometimes the hardest to solve?

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RE: Generating a GUID - 4/17/2008 6:13:18 AM

ebgreen

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Thanks TNO. The Powershell way:

([System.Guid]::NewGuid()).ToString()

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RE: Generating a GUID - 5/2/2008 1:11:02 AM

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I use this functionality for a file renaming script I created.
You have to recreate the object each time to get a new GUID. (Of course I could be missing something)

So I put it in a function like this:

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