Why are there dashes in a .NET GUID? Are there dashes in most implementations of a GUID, or is it just a Microsoft thing?
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Why are there dashes in a .NET GUID? Are there dashes in most implementations of a GUID, or is it just a Microsoft thing?
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Technically, there are no ‘dashes’ in a GUID. A GUID is a 128-bit value which is usually stored in the following manner (using C# here to represent the structure):
The dashes are in the string representation of a GUID.
The dashes are optional and are not required in a string representation of a GUID.
That said, there are historical reasons as to where the placement of the dashes are, related to how the GUIDs were generated, but that historical semantic no longer applies.