Missing Create GUID in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017?

Question

Where can I find Create GUID options in Visual Studio 2017?

I'm using Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 Edition and I'm not finding the Create GUID options from the Tools menu.

Solution 1

Please follow troubleshoot section in this documentation. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/33047.create-guid-tool-in-visual-studio.aspx

If the tool does not appear under the Tools menu, click Tools > External Tools (see image above). It may be that the tool was not registered correctly within the IDE. Using the External Tools window, we can add a reference to guidgen.exe.

Solution 2

Mine was in Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0 instead of the Microsoft Visual Studio

Under c:\program files (x86) there are several MVS folders and each with a Common7 folder and some with Tools folder.

In one of then guidgen.exe is hiding.

Replace the links from Tools -> External Tools -> Create GUID, for example in my case

c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools

Comments

[wannadream]

social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/… See troubleshoot section.

[Karthik]

@wannadream - Thanks. That helped. Post it as an answer. Will mark yours as an answer

[Shay]

Just switch to use PowerShell and type [guid]:NewGuid()

[nam]

@ShayNissel Did you mean New-Guid?

[Shay]

@nam it's actually [guid]::NewGuid() but New-Guid is way shorter

[Peter-Paul]

For people missing the .exe file the troubleshooter refers to: modify your visual studio installation to include Desktop development with C++. This is what adds the guidgen.exe to your visual studio.

[Fabrice T]

@Peter-Paul Thanks, I hadn't guidgen.exe in my VS installation folder.

[nam]

Or, better yet. In PowerShell, New-Guid.