GuidGen 2Provides a new Create GUID command in the Tools menu with a new WPF surface, and featuring code tailored for C# and VB.NET developers to define Guid fields.
Also provides editor inline code completions for adding GUIDs, guid fields and guid attributes for C# and VB.NET! |
Let's face it. The Create Guid (guidgen.exe) tool that ships with VS is over a decade old and is old Win32 GDI based. It also doesn't produce any code snippets useful for C#/VB developers. GuidGen 2.0 is a new face to creating GUIDs. And includes C#/VB code snippets! It's also open source!
But a separate app to copy GUIDs from into the editor is still old school. Why not have inline editor completions for GUIDs? Just type "guid" in your C# or VB code files, then click on "Guids" or press Alt+. to select the Guids tab with the keyboard.
Note: The in-editor code completion feature has been temporarily disabled because it has some negative interactions with the language service that I haven't sorted out yet. Let me know your feedback! Should we get this into a future version of VS? |
