GUIDs are globally unique identifiers or universally unique identifiers. They are used in computer systems all over the globe. One consists of 32 numbers broken up in to a sequence of hexadecimal digits (0-9 and a-f).

GUID Test and Validate. Use this to test if your 'GUID' is in fact a GUID. You could count the sections and see how many characters are in each but why bother. You can simply enter the text and hit the 'Test and Validate' button. The site will use Microsoft .NET to check the GUID/UUID.

_TUCHAR *guidStr = 0x00; GUID *pguid = 0x00; pguid = new GUID; CoCreateGuid(pguid); // Convert the GUID to a string UuidToString(pguid, &guidStr); delete pguid; source

Java import java.util.UUID; public class RandomStringUUID { public static void main(String[] args) { // // Creating a random UUID (Universally unique identifier).

Its easy to make GUIDs in ASP.Net. Below is clean code to get GUIDs. When the .Net CRL creates GUIDs or UUIDs they are version 4 guids. Where a '4' begins the third group of digits. Dim String myGuid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString() *Claims to conform to …