Questions tagged [create-guid]

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What's the purpose of Create GUID tool in Visual Studio?

Visual Studio has a Create GUID tool (Tools > Create GUID). What is it for? Can you remember what was the last time you used it? I just can't imagine why i should copy into the clipboard a new GUID with that tool.
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Create user & group if it does not exist using Ansible

I have a customized requirement. Check if user tomuser belongs to group tomuser & exists no matter what the uid, gid is; then simply do nothing i.e. we are good. if group tomuser does not exist create group tomuser with gid 1900. if user tomuser…
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Why does Create GUID display different GUID parts with different capitalization?

Visual Studio is shipped with a Create GUID tool that is used for generating GUIDs. Now here's a GUID it generated for me: {7A09BF85-9E98-44ea-9AB5-A13953E88C3D} each of the 4 GUID parts contains both letters and digits. Why does the third part…
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Cannot find the Create GUID tool in VS2005

I have Visual Studio 2005 Professional ENU installed and want to create GUIDs using its Create GUIDs utility. However, I cannot find it under the Tools menu. What should I do to get this utility? Thanks
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Create GUID menu item missing in Visual C++

I do not see "Create GUID" option under the menu item Tools -> . I am using Visual Studio 2005 . Do I have to install anything for that .
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