Mostly Useless Application of the Day

June 1, 2007 14:00

There was a point in the past couple years (which is fortunately behind me) where I needed to generate GUIDs on demand for a project I was working on. A lot of them. Don't ask.

So I wrote a little app, which I just came across. The sole purpose of this app is to generate GUIDs as easily as possible and place them in the clipboard. It's small, semi-transparent and floats on top of the active application, so it won't really get in the way.

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Nothing really unique or special, but it over an extended period it saved me a lot of time, and maybe it'll help someone else out there. There's so little functionality behind it that posting the source code is basically pointless, but drop me a line if you're interested.

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June 4. 2007 17:23

LarryB

Was guidgen not sufficient?

LarryB

June 4. 2007 20:35

Eric Kemp

Like I said, it's mostly useless.

The main reason was to have something standalone that could generate multiples at a time, or do them with leading zeros...

Eric Kemp

June 5. 2007 16:32

LarryB

Ah. Got it. Smile

LarryB

June 6. 2007 21:10

Kris

You might consider adding an option for generating sequential GUIDs, similar to the newsequentialid() default-only function in SQL 2005. There are OS hooks available that can be P/Invoke'd to perform the generation.

Kris

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