Creating a GUID from C++
How to create a GUID: #include <iostream> #include <objbase.h> int main ( int argc , char ** argv ) { char szGUID [] = "(XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX)" ; const int GUID_LEN = sizeof (szGUID)/ sizeof (szGUID[0]); GUID g ; CoCreateGuid(&g); wchar_t szwGUID [GUID_LEN]; ::StringFromGUID2(g, szwGUID, GUID_LEN); wcstombs(szGUID, szwGUID, GUID_LEN); std ::cout<<szGUID<< std ::endl; return 0; }