rafaelturon/blockchain-investments

using System;

namespace Blockchain.Investments.Core.Infrastructure
{
    public static class Util
    {
        private static readonly long EpochMilliseconds = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc).Ticks / 10000L;

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a sequential GUID according to SQL Server's ordering rules.
        /// http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=25862 (The Cost of GUIDs as Primary Keys)
        /// </summary>
        public static Guid NewSequentialId()
        {
        // This code was not reviewed to guarantee uniqueness under most conditions, nor completely optimize for avoiding
        // page splits in SQL Server when doing inserts from multiple hosts, so do not re-use in production systems.
        var guidBytes = Guid.NewGuid().ToByteArray();

        // Get the milliseconds since Jan 1 1970.
        byte[] sequential = BitConverter.GetBytes((DateTime.Now.Ticks / 10000L) - EpochMilliseconds);

        // Discard the 2 most significant bytes, as we only care about the milliseconds increasing, but the highest ones should be 0 for several thousand years to come.
        if (BitConverter.IsLittleEndian)
        {
            guidBytes[10] = sequential[5];
            guidBytes[11] = sequential[4];
            guidBytes[12] = sequential[3];
            guidBytes[13] = sequential[2];
            guidBytes[14] = sequential[1];
            guidBytes[15] = sequential[0];
        }
        else
        {
            Buffer.BlockCopy(sequential, 2, guidBytes, 10, 6);
        }

        return new Guid(guidBytes);
        }
    }
}