What's the C++ version of Guid.NewGuid()?

Question

I need to create a GUID in an unmanaged windows C++ project. I\'m used to C#, where I\'d use Guid.NewGuid(). What\'s the (unmanaged windows) C++ vers

Answer 1

In the new WinRT api you can use winrt::Windows::Foundation::GuidHelper::CreateNewGuid() which returns a struct of winrt::guid type. You can later pass it to winrt::to_hstring to get struct of winrt::hstring type, then pass it to winrt::to_string to get std::string type.