Create Guid in Visual Studio 2008
It is possible someone else already blogged about it but a lot of SharePoint developers seem to have problems to generate GUIDs when using Visual Studio 2008. We are used to click the Tools menu and choose Create Guid but unfortunately this option is disabled when you start using Visual Studio 2008.
This is because the guidgen.exe tool is located somewhere else now: it comes with the Windows SDK now.
I’ve seen a lot of inventive ways to create Guids the last couple of months but copy/paste an existing one and changing a part of it is definitely not the way to go.
You can enable the Create Guid option again in Visual Studio 2008.
1. Choose the Tools -> External Tools...
2. Click the Browse (…) button and find the guidgen.exe in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin\ folder.
3. Click the OK button.
There you go. Creating GUIDs is now as easy as it was in Visual Studio 2005. You have no excuse anymore to manually edit a copied Guid. 
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I’m Karine Bosch and currently I’m working as a freelance O365 and SharePoint Solution Architect .
I still do a lot of work for my previous employer Recomatics, a company located in Destelbergen near Ghent.
Previously I also worked as a Premier Field Engineer for SharePoint @ Microsoft Belgium.
For 5 successive years I’ve been rewarded as SharePoint Server MVP for my contribution to the SharePoint community: I developed the U2U CAML Query Builder and its successor the CAML Designer, which I develop together with Andy Van Steenbergen.
In the many years I worked for U2U, I worked as technical assistant for Patrick Tisseghem who unfortunately died on 3th September 2008. Together with Patrick we developed the alfa and beta versions of the Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint which contains several samples on how to integrate Silverlight with SharePoint. You can download the samples from http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP.
I’m also proud board member of the belgian user group BIWUG.
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Excellent tip!! I was looking for this info. Thanks a lot
Hi Karine,
Perhaps you will like this small extension of VS too. You can insert a fresh GUID or the current project’s assembly name using one keypress:
http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=c04a88a9%2Dd138%2D4ac3%2Da2bb%2Db95c9fdd114e&ID=84
Hope it helps! And keep up your wonderful blog. I totally dig all the control explanations!
Wouter
ps Are we collegues now? 🙂
thanks!
went crazy when I couldnt find this in the menu. I could swear that it had been there before. must have used it in a previous version of Visual studio!
wrote a blogpost (in swedish) about this and credited you of course!
http://blog.nansen.se/2009/09/skapa-en-guid-i-visual-studio-2008.html
Thanks, I was looking for this.
Great post! Thank you very much.
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Tanks a lot!, a great post and very easy XD
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Thank you Mam..
Thank you!
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Excellent. Thanks
Why do some GUID pop-up windows have 6 options?