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Hello:

I notice that if a Guid is declared as follows,

// code sample
public Guid EntityID;

then the following statment evaluates to true even before the guid is
initialized:

// code sample
EntityID.ToStri ng().Length == 36

So how does one determine if a guid has not been intialized and is "empty"?

Thanks,
Chris
Nov 16 '05 #1
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Thanks, Charlie.

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Compare it to Guid.Empty

Nov 16 '05 #2

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