CoCreateGuid() and UuidCreate() on Win'95

Mike Bryga -- MBryga@PickSys.com
Thursday, February 20, 1997

Environment : VC++4.0, Win95/NT 4.0

Hello fellow Programmers,

I can call CoCreateGuid() on both Win'95 and Win NT, but it requires =
alot of the AFX libraries that I don't really want. The documentation =
says it just calls UuidCreate() which is defined in RPC.h (which I =
already use). However, UuidCreate() does nothing on Win'95. What should =
I call on Win'95? I could not find the source to CoCreateGuid() - I =
thought MsDev or MsTools provided the source to MFC - and isn't COM part =
of MFC?

Your assitance is appreciated.
Mike

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Mike Blaszczak -- mikeblas@nwlink.com
Friday, February 21, 1997

[Mini-digest: 2 responses]

At 17:26 2/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Environment : VC++4.0, Win95/NT 4.0

>I can call CoCreateGuid() on both Win'95 and Win NT,
> but it requires alot of the AFX libraries that I don't really want.

No, it doesn't.  CoCreateGuid() is implemented by OLE, not by MFC.
CoCreateGuid() doesn't require _any_ MFC libraries.

> I could not find the source to CoCreateGuid()

The source code for the OLE libraries, like the rest of the Windows
system source code, isn't generally available to the public.

 > I thought MsDev or MsTools provided the source to MFC -

The sourcecode to MFC is included in the Visual C++ product.

 > and isn't COM part of MFC?

No, it isn't. MFC supports COM; it doesn't implement it.


.B ekiM
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           This performance was not lip-synched.

-----From: "Matthew Gallant" 

Mike,

	CoCreateGuid() is a OLE 2 function, not an MFC function.  If it will do
what you want, you should be able to call it without much incident.  It is
even available from a non-MFC application.

	CoCreateGuid() is probably documented in a separate help file called
something like "OLE Programmer's Reference".


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From: Mike Bryga 
To: 'MFC-L' ; 'MsVc' ; 'ntdev@atria.com'
Subject: CoCreateGuid() and UuidCreate() on Win'95
Date: February 20, 1997 8:26 PM

I can call CoCreateGuid() on both Win'95 and Win NT, but it requires alot
of the AFX libraries that I don't really want. The documentation says it
just calls UuidCreate() which is defined in RPC.h (which I already use).
However, UuidCreate() does nothing on Win'95. What should I call on Win'95?
I could not find the source to 

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