Most Apple owners are familiar with the UDID, aka serial number, for their iOS device, but did you know that your Mac has a similar hardware UUID too? In this post, I will show you where to find it, ...

I'm programming in C/C++. I'm trying to communicate with a USB device using the SetupDi* functions from the Windows Driver Kit. To start, I need to create a GUID struct that I pass to ...

The issue occurs mainly because Remote Procedure Call or RPC which enables the communication between Winlogon and Group Policy service (GPSVC) communications, is already established before the service ...

There are a variety of reasons why developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. This tip contains sample code ...

Let's say I have no more than a few hundred UUIDs, the set of which will only be updated rarely. Let's furthermore say I want to, at runtime, check if an arbitrary UUID belongs to said predefined set.