Tools you can use to generate a GUID

This site is built to give a bit more information about GUIDs, there's lots of different ways of actually generating a GUID that probably fit into your day-to-day workflow better

Tools

• Visual studio: There is a built in GUID generator, just go Tools => Create GUID
  With this method you can select a bunch of different output formats for various scenarios
• PowerShell: [Guid]::NewGuid()
  With PowerShell you can pipe the GUID to your clipboard using clip: [Guid]::NewGuid().ToString() | clip

Code samples

C#

        var guid = new Guid();

Java

        UUID uuid = UUID.randomUUID();

Ruby

        require 'securerandom'
        SecureRandom.uuid
        # As of Ruby 1.9

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