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Describe the context as well. Is it for a primary field in DB? Why not use an Identity field? Or you can use a GUID
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Describe the context as well. Is it for a primary field in DB? Why not use an Identity field? Or you can use a GUID

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Explain your requirement properly.or the context &nbsp;in which you need this.Making Id field primary key is enough to check duplicates
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Explain your requirement properly.or the context  in which you need this.Making Id field primary key is enough to check duplicates

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Describe the context. You can use this:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-36344583-1">Dim ID_Field As Guid = Guid.NewGuid()</code></pre>
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Describe the context. You can use this:



Dim ID_Field As Guid = Guid.NewGuid()

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Hi<br />
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It is not a primary key. I am recreating an adapted version of Pastal Accounting and there is a transactionID which is secondry to the main ID field
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Hi

It is not a primary key. I am recreating an adapted version of Pastal Accounting and there is a transactionID which is secondry to the main ID field

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Would a random number work? Or does the number need to be in sequence?
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Would a random number work? Or does the number need to be in sequence?

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the number needs to be in sequence
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Hi<br />
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I need to generate a unique ID eg 56776. What VB code do I use and how do I make sure that it isn't entered twice
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Hi

I need to generate a unique ID eg 56776. What VB code do I use and how do I make sure that it isn't entered twice

VB.net 2010

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