UuidCreate replacement

Question

Hi,

UuidCreate and UuidToString are not present for metro style apps, is there a replacement for these functions?

Regards,

Jose

Answer 1

Hello,

As far as I know, you can use Platform::Guid to represent a Guid

Guid g1(0x6fdfb204, 0xaf17, 0x479e, 0x8a, 0xce, 0xef, 0x97, 0xe0, 0xa3, 0x45, 0xc8);

String^ res=g1.ToString();
// Convert it to string

Best regards,
Jesse

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Jesse Jiang [MSFT]
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Answer 2

I see, but is there a built in way to generate the UUID? i don't want to build my own function to generate UUIDs if i can avoid it.

Bests Regards,

Jose

Answer 3

Some body pointed out to use Guid::NewGuid, but some how the reply was deleted before i check it as valid.

Answer 4

I was the one who suggested Guid::NewGuid, but could not make an example to prove it works (I'm a noob at C++).  So I deleted the post.

It does work in C# though.

Guid g = Guid.NewGuid();

Answer 5

Thanks i see, seem is not supported in C++.

Does anybody knows if this will be added to C++?

Answer 6

I think it should be possible to build a simple C# class library for generating the guid that you can call from your C++ application.  Would that work for you?

Answer 7

Hi Jose,

You can create a GUID with CoCreateGuid().

--Rob