Guidgen Tool (Compact 2013)

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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.

See Also

Reference

Platform Builder Command Line Tools