The VBScript Network and Systems Administrator's Cafe » Scriptlet.TypeLib http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:36:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Creating a unique GUID for use in your VBScripts http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator/creating-a-unique-guid-for-use-in-your-vbscripts/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator/creating-a-unique-guid-for-use-in-your-vbscripts/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:40:00 +0000 Jerry Lees http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/vbscript-systems-administrator/creating-a-unique-guid-for-use-in-your-vbscripts/ Today I answered a question in the ITKE unanswered questions for Word VBA on how to be certain a filename was unique across several users using it. The answer I gave answered the question, but I knew there was a way to create GUID’s within VBScript but couldn’t recall how.

GUID’s are cryptic to look at, but they are pretty much guaranteed to be unique. After some research I found the library that provides this functionality… Scriptlet.TypeLib! Below is a short script that gives you an idea of how to use it in your scripts to generate unique strings for when you need a guaranteed unique name or identifier.

Option Explicit

Dim GUID
Set TypeLib = CreateObject(“Scriptlet.TypeLib”)
GUID = TypeLib.Guid

Enjoy!

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