== Why is this an issue? include::../description.adoc[] === Noncompliant code example [source,vbnet] ---- Public Sub Foo() Dim G1 As New Guid ' Noncompliant - what's the intent? Dim G2 As Guid = Nothing ' Noncompliant End Sub ---- === Compliant solution [source,vbnet] ---- public void Foo(byte[] bytes) Public Sub Foo(Bytes As Byte()) Dim G1 As Guid = Guid.Empty Dim G2 As Guid = Guid.NewGuid() Dim G3 As Guid = New Guid(Bytes) End Sub ---- ifdef::env-github,rspecator-view[] ''' == Implementation Specification (visible only on this page) include::../message.adoc[] include::../highlighting.adoc[] ''' == Comments And Links (visible only on this page) include::../comments-and-links.adoc[] endif::env-github,rspecator-view[]