C# how to create a Guid value?

Question

One field of our struct is Guid type. How to generate a valid value for it?

Answer 1

If you are using this in the Reflection C#, you can get the guid from the property attribute as follows

var propertyAttributes= property.GetCustomAttributes();
foreach(var attribute in propertyAttributes)
{
  var myguid= Guid.Parse(attribute.Id.ToString());
}

Answer 2

Guid id = Guid.NewGuid();

Answer 3

Guid.NewGuid() will create one

Answer 4

To makes an "empty" all-0 guid like 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.

var makeAllZeroGuID = new System.Guid();

or

var makeAllZeroGuID = System.Guid.Empty;

To makes an actual guid with a unique value, what you probably want.

var uniqueGuID = System.Guid.NewGuid(); 

Answer 5

If you want to create a "desired" Guid you can do

var tempGuid = Guid.Parse("<guidValue>");

where <guidValue> would be something like 1A3B944E-3632-467B-A53A-206305310BAE.

Answer 6

There are two ways

var guid = Guid.NewGuid();

or

var guid = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

both use the Guid class, the first creates a Guid Object, the second a Guid string.