What's the meaning of the hashes at Enumerations?

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I use GhostDoc for the XML-Documentation of my code, and it has a neat "auto-document"-function I use quite often, so now I used it on an enumeration and it came up with some strange hash-code I don't quite understand.

What is it for? Looks sort of like this:

{35A90EBF-F421-44A3-BE3A-47C72AFE47FE}

Would be a lot better question when you show the Guid in context. — H H, Dec 01 '09 at 12:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 07 '10 at 09:41

I just discovered the same, and I think it is a bug in GhostDoc. Funningly enough, it only happens (in my machine) when your enum values are all in the same line, i.e., something like this:

 enum GhostDocBug {
     Funny, Guid, Appearing
  }

If you put each value in its own line, it goes away

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '09 at 12:50

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this is a String representation of a Guid. See the System.Guid type for more details.

Guids are essentially random codes (some types of Guids depend on MAC-Address or time though) which is so unlikely to occur again in this corner of SpaceTime that is can be considered to be unique in all Creation.

answered Dec 01 '09 at 12:50

David Rutten

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But why are they only added to `Enum`s and not to classes? Don't quite get the point... still, answer is correct I assume – F.P Dec 01 '09 at 12:54

What's the meaning of the hashes at Enumerations?

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