How do you manipulate GUID's when doing Windows programming in C or C++?

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How do you manipulate GUID's when doing Windows programming in C or C++?

Thanks to Rich B for fixing my "faux pas" and moving my reply to my own question out of the question itself and into a standalone answer.

Answer 1

Under Win32 if you want to manipulate GUID's you can use the UuidXXX() Network/RPC functions:

• UuidCompare()

• UuidCreate()

• UuidCreateNil()

• UuidCreateSequential()

• UuidEqual()

• UuidFromString()

• UuidHash()

• UuidIsNil()

• UuidToString()

Answer 2

I use boost::uuid : http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/uuid/index.html That way it is guaranteed to still work if I port my application on another plaftorm.