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How to create Guid value in C#?
A Globally Unique Identifier or GUID represents a gigantic identification number — a number so large that it is mathematically guaranteed to be unique not only in a single system like a database, but across multiple systems or distributed applications.
The total number of unique keys (3.40282366×1038) is so large that the probability of the same number being generated twice is very small. For an application using 10 billion random GUIDs, the probability of a coincidence is approximately 1 in a quintillion.(1030)
For example, in Retail domain if we want to generate a unique for each transaction so that a customer can use that id to do post sale operations like return, adjustment etc., GUID can be used. GUIDs are most commonly written in text as a sequence of hexadecimal digits like 3F2504E0-4F89-11D3-9A0C-0305E82C3301.
Guid is present in System namespace in C#. It can be created like below.
Guid demoGuid = Guid.NewGuid();
Example
using System;
namespace DemoApplication{
class Program{
static void Main(string[] args){
Guid demoGuid = Guid.NewGuid();
Console.WriteLine(demoGuid);
Console.WriteLine(Guid.NewGuid());
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}Output
The output of the above code is
3a251d82-e8ce-442f-9e42-5285653a5e8a 09081b06-26e2-49fa-8e96-93748a99defa Each time when Guid.NewGuid() is called it will generate a random unique guid.
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