Creating a GUID

[Mike_Cotrone]

This had a very good discussion a few years back.

Native UUID Generation

Here is a function that will work across platforms: Protected Function GenerateUUID() As String // From http://www.cryptosys.net/pki/uuid-rfc4122.html // // Generate 16 random bytes (=128 bits) // Adjust certain bits according to RFC 4122 section 4.4 as follows: // set the four most significant bits of the 7th byte to 0100'B, so the high nibble is '4' // set the two most significant bits of the 9th byte to 10'B, so the high nibble will be one of '8', '9', 'A', or 'B'. // Convert t…