>Michaels suggestion will work but it creates nasty filenames <g>... A couple of things you can do to make that a little cleaener:
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>Path.GetTempFileName()
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>which returns a filename and creates a 0 byte file (which seems lame, but it maps the underlying API call).
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>You can use Michaels idea and use a Hash on it to make it more managable:
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>(new Guid()).ToString().GetHashCode().ToString("x");
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>This will return a hex representation of hte hash that's somewhere around 8 =12 characters long usually.
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>Actually the Temp API uses something very similar to return filenames.

Thanks Rick, I will also take a look at those enhancements.