Why are there dashes in a .NET GUID?

Question

Why are there dashes in a .NET GUID? Are there dashes in most implementations of a GUID, or is it just a Microsoft thing?

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Answer 1

The Guid class of .NET recognizes a bunch of different formats: dashes as separators, no separators, brackets as delimiters, parenthesis as delimiters, no delimiters, etc