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How to "create" a unique GUID?

While making my own plugin, I have used code from musicmusic's modded foo_search_ex.

Among other things, I "borrowed" this:
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// {7E409D65-CBE2-41f8-B366-200BFEEEBC40}
const GUID navigator_extension::extension_guid = 
{ 0x7e409d65, 0xcbe2, 0x41f8, { 0xb3, 0x66, 0x20, 0xb, 0xfe, 0xee, 0xbc, 0x40 } };
only changing "search_extension" to "navigator_extension".

If I understand this correctly, this is a unique ID, and I guess it isn't such a good idea to copy it from another plugin if you happen to use both plugins, so I should probably have my own GUID. But, where/how to get it? 

How to "create" a unique GUID?

Reply #1 –
upNorth:

I use a utility from VisualStudio called "guidgen.exe". I believe it's located in the Common > Tools folder of the VisualStudio install. As far as I can remember, there are no dependencies.

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While making my own plugin, I have used code from musicmusic's modded foo_search_ex.

Among other things, I "borrowed" this:
Code: [Select]
// {7E409D65-CBE2-41f8-B366-200BFEEEBC40}
const GUID navigator_extension::extension_guid = 
{ 0x7e409d65, 0xcbe2, 0x41f8, { 0xb3, 0x66, 0x20, 0xb, 0xfe, 0xee, 0xbc, 0x40 } };
only changing "search_extension" to "navigator_extension".

If I understand this correctly, this is a unique ID, and I guess it isn't such a good idea to copy it from another plugin if you happen to use both plugins, so I should probably have my own GUID. But, where/how to get it? 
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How to "create" a unique GUID?

Reply #2 –
Thanks, stevekim 

The solution was just as simple as I expected it to be...