GUID

[Gary Dunne]

Is there a built in function for creating a Guid in VB .Net ?
I know about the CoCreateGuid API call, but I though that maybe it's been
built in to .Net ?

I've found the GUID class and tried

Dim oGuid as New Guid
Dim sGuid = oGuid.NewGuid()

But it gives me a blank GUID (string of zeros)

Thanks

Gary

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Gary Dunne" <Ke*****************@zarion.com.deletethis> schrieb:

Is there a built in function for creating a Guid in VB .Net ?
[...]
I've found the GUID class and tried

Dim oGuid as New Guid
Dim sGuid = oGuid.NewGuid()

But it gives me a blank GUID (string of zeros)

Notice that 'NewGuid' is a shared method of the 'Guid' class:

\\\
MsgBox(Guid.NewGuid().ToString())
///

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Gary,
As Herfried stated, NewGuid is a shared method, it returns a new Guid for
you. Guid is a structure, calling the Guid's constructor with "New Guid"
does not actually create a Guid.

Use something like:

Dim oGuid as Guid = Guid.NewGuid()
Dim sGuid As String = oGuid.ToString()
Hope this helps
Jay
"Gary Dunne" <Ke*****************@zarion.com.deletethis> wrote in message
news:eo**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... Is there a built in function for creating a Guid in VB .Net ?
I know about the CoCreateGuid API call, but I though that maybe it's been
built in to .Net ?

I've found the GUID class and tried

Dim oGuid as New Guid
Dim sGuid = oGuid.NewGuid()

But it gives me a blank GUID (string of zeros)

Thanks

Gary