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This morning I found myself wrestling with SSIS to convert a string from a flat file to a unique identifier via a Data Flow inside of an SSIS package.  I figured this would be a rather trivial case (the midget was kicking my ass!).  I use guids all over for application development and for database keys.  They are very useful, and very dependable.  Here is a line from my flat file:

61898d4c-3a1b-4736-9a36-eb90a23322e0|:|10/13/2008 11:59:58 PM|:|74afebfe-9523-4977-b5f6-5154b6c91211

Anyone see anything wrong with this?  I didn't see anything wrong, outside of the silly |:| delimiter (I don't want to get started on that <rant/> <--- rant with no content!). 

I've been very excited recently by the release of Windows Azure, and rest of the Microsoft suite of cloud based services.  I downloaded all of the sdk's, signed up for all the invitation tokens I could, and began writing code.  The Visual Studio templates for Windows Azure projects makes getting your first Azure project up and running super simple.  I did run into one issues with the project templates setting up my first project.