As a follow-up on my post from yesterday about generating shorter GUIDs, I’ve created a small helper class in C#. The class encodes a GUID into a 22 character long string and decodes the string back to the original GUID again.

That way you can save 10 characters from the original GUID and it is ASCII encoded so it will work perfectly in a URL as a query string or in ViewState.

It takes a standard GUID like this:

c9a646d3-9c61-4cb7-bfcd-ee2522c8f633

And converts it into this smaller string: