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- IDGEN
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- Both GUIDGEN and UUIDGEN are tools for generating globally unique identifiers
- known as GUIDs. GUIDS are commonly used in OLE to identify classes (CLSID) or
- interfaces (IID.) These utilities are included with VB for developers who want
- to generate IDL (Interface Description Language) or ODL (Object Description
- Language.) IDL and ODL are used with the MIDL.EXE and MKTYPLIB.EXE tools to
- generate type libraries that can be used with VB.
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- GUIDGEN.EXE
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- GUIDGEN is a windows program that generates GUIDs in several different formats.
- GUIDGEN places GUIDs in the clipboard so that you can paste them where you need
- to use them.
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- UUIDGEN.EXE
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- UUIDGEN is a command line utility that also generates GUIDs in different formats.
- You use UUIDGEN as follows:
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- UUIDGEN [-isonvh?]
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- i - Output UUID in an IDL interface template
- s - Output UUID as an initialized C struct
- o<filename> - redirect output to a file, specified immediately after o
- n<number> - Number of UUIDs to generate, specified immediately after n
- v - display version information about uuidgen
- h,? - Display command option summary