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Generating Unique Keys in .Net

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Jun 10, 2006

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I need to create some unique IDs. GUIDs are great as they give Globally Unique identifier but they are big. I mean if you want to issue unique number in your application which you want to give as Booking Number or any reference number then GUIDs is obviously not a solution.