@rewdboy a coworker had a small problem earlier today, he just couldn't find the good old Create GUID application that is packaged with Visual Studio.
The tool has not been removed from the IDE it’s still there. It depends on what development type you have chosen. You may remember the first time you start Visual Studio after installing it prompts you asking what type of development you are planning to do. There are six choices, the one that I know has the Create GUID tool is the Visual C"# Development Settings, If you went with Web Development Settings you are missing this feature.
There are two ways of getting hold of this nice tool. The first one is to reset all your IDE to the C# Development settings.
To do this just go to Tools -> Import and Export settings and then mark the Reset all settings radio button in the wizard after that you can chose between the settings above.
This may be ok if you have just installed Visual Studio. But if you have been working with it for some time and have customized and tweaked it to perfection you may want to go for the second approach.
And that is to just add the command button to your toolbar. This is probably the preferred way to do this. But it’s not that intuitive. Here is how:
It’s just as you normally would add a tool to the toolbox Tools –> Customize
Then we come to the not so intuitive part. The Create GUID tool is hidden as External Command 1. Just drag the control to your toolbar and voala!
Why they have chosen to hide it this way we may never know. But now you know how to get it.
