Comments on: Generating GUIDs in the Visual Studio IDE

By: Ziv

Ziv — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:15:13 +0000

U Da man - helped me much !!!

thx

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:28:29 +0000

Wow, this is great! Much handier than GuidGen. Thank you very much!

Lars

By: Leon Zandman

Leon Zandman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:56:44 +0000

I’ve updated the macro source code in this article, so it is compatible with Visual Studio 2005/2008.

By: Leon Zandman

Leon Zandman — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:41:41 +0000

@SharePointer: I’ve included an updated version of the macro that works for Visual Studio 2008 at the end of the article.

By: Sharepointer

Sharepointer — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:46:16 +0000

I use an online GUID generator when I need GUIDs since I couldn’t get the guidgen thing to work in VS 2008 - http://createguid.com

By: Quickly Generating GUIDs in Visual Studio 2008 « Point Deep

Quickly Generating GUIDs in Visual Studio 2008 « Point Deep — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:13:12 +0000

[...] have however found a nifty alternate solution by Leon Zandman that describes creating a Macro to insert a guid into your current file. I’d just like to [...]

By: Leon Zandman

Leon Zandman — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:40:54 +0000

@Rolf Huisman: Yes, I know that WiX nowadays has support for auto-generating GUIDs on certain elements. I myself sometimes use it for generating Package IDs, which should be unique for each build. But in general I consider automatically generated GUIDs evil. It’s easy to break you setups by using them in the wrong place.

By: Rolf Huisman

Rolf Huisman — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:26:08 +0000

You can also use a * instead of a guid. Wix will generate one himself.