Guidgen Tool (Compact 2013)
10/26/2015
This tool creates new globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), also known as universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), which are unique, 128-bit values.
Syntax
guidgen
Remarks
Guidgen.exe is an executable that is part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, and is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools. You can dynamically generate a GUID on a device that supports COM. To do so, call CoCreateGuid.
When this command is run from a command prompt build window, the Create GUID dialog box appears. You can choose from the four available formats:
- IMPLEMENT_OLECREATE(...)
- DEFINE_GUID(...)
- static const struct GUID = (...)
- Registry Format
When you select the radio button corresponding to that format, the Create GUID dialog box displays an example of each format.