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Adding GUID generator to Visual Studio 2008 Tools menu

First issue you can facing is you haven’t “Tools –> Create GUID” utility in your menu.

First what you should check is there required utility in “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\” directory named guidgen.exe

If you haven’t it you can download it separately from Microsoft site.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=94551f58-484f-4a8c-bb39-adb270833afc&displaylang=en

After downloading you should extract it.

After you have this utility on your computer you can add it to your Visual Studio menu. Follow this instructions to do that:

1. Open Visual Studio 2008
2. Tools –> External Tools
3. Enter in a Title box “Create GUID”
4. In Command box click on browse button named “…” and choose you extracted utility
5. Finally click OK button and now you have GUID Generator in you Tools menu