Creating a unique or semi-unique ID in .NET
Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog,
on 09 Mar 2006 |
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I have a few applications where I need to create some unique IDs that can't be GUIDs. GUIDs are great if you truly need a globally unique identifier, but they are a bit of overkill when it comes to application that locally unique ids. GUIDS are nice but they are big. If you need to represent them as strings the 38 characters it uses with punctuation is a bit excessive. There's nothing that I hate more than browser querystrings that have 3 GUID IDs embedded in them <g>…
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