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Please follow troubleshoot section in this documentation.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/33047.create-guid-tool-in-visual-studio.aspx
If the tool does not appear under the Tools menu, click Tools >
External Tools (see image above). It may be that the tool was not
registered correctly within the IDE. Using the External Tools window,
we can add a reference to guidgen.exe.
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Mine was in
Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
instead of the
Microsoft Visual Studio
Under
c:\program files (x86)
there are several MVS folders and each with a Common7 folder and some with Tools folder.
In one of then
guidgen.exe
is hiding.
Replace the links from Tools -> External Tools -> Create GUID, for example in my case
c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools
This is pretty late but nowadays with the C# REPL built into VS.NET or the numerous online REPLs a new guid is only as far away as a single line of C#:
Guid.NewGuid();
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