[Mono-bugs] [Bug 59665][Nor] Changed - Type.GUID is never initialized

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Changed by gert.driesen at pandora.be.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=59665

--- shadow/59665	2007-08-03 18:07:56.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/59665.tmp.5589	2007-08-09 04:46:39.000000000 -0400
@@ -124,6 +124,17 @@
       IIDs are generated based on a hash of the fully-qualified
 interface name plus the signatures of all the interface s members that
 are exposed through Interop.
     *
       LIBIDs are generated based on a hash of the name, version, and
 public key of the assembly.
+
+------- Additional Comments From gert.driesen at pandora.be  2007-08-09 04:46 -------
+Other useful info from that blog post:
+
+And if you don't want any of your GUIDs to change when your assembly 
+version number changes, you can use the ComCompatibleVersionAttribute 
+(introduced in v1.1) to plug in a different version number as input 
+to the GUID-generation algorithm.  In v1.1, several .NET Framework 
+assemblies marked themselves with ComCompatibleVersionAttribute to 
+keep their auto-generated GUIDs matching what was shipped in v1.0. 
+