How to Generate a GUID with VB Script

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Global Unique Ids (GUIDs) can be very useful in naming files, folders or database records. GUIDs are guaranteed to be unique irrespective of the origin.

"Scriptlet.Typelib" is an object that is normally used to generate a type library for Windows Script Component dynamically. By design, the object creates a GUID if one is not provided, so this feature is used to create GUIDs.

The following code shows how to create a GUID in Visual Basic Script:

Set x = CreateObject("Scriptlet.TypeLib")
strNewGuid=Left(x.GUID, 38)

In order to generate 5 GUIDs, the following code sample may be used:

For n = 1 to 5
  uniqueid(n) = Left(CreateObject("Scriptlet.Typelib").guid, 38)
Next n