A Guid is a 16-byte globally unique identifier with the layout shown in Table 2.

Table 2 – Guid structure

Component

Data Type

Data1

UInt32

Data2

UInt16

Data3

UInt16

Data4

Byte [8]

Guid values may be represented as a string in this form:

<Data1>-<Data2>-<Data3>-<Data4[0:1]>-<Data4[2:7]>

Where Data1 is 8 characters wide, Data2 and Data3 are 4 characters wide and each Byte in Data4 is 2 characters wide. Each value is formatted as a hexadecimal number with padded zeros. A typical Guid value would look like this when formatted as a string:

C496578A-0DFE-4B8F-870A-745238C6AEAE