SoftwareMetadata.Approvals Property

Gets the list of approvals for this package.

Namespace: Microsoft.UpdateServices.ClientServicing
Assembly: Microsoft.UpdateServices.ClientServicing (in Microsoft.UpdateServices.ClientServicing.dll)

Usage

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property Approvals As ReadOnlyCollection(Of PackageApproval)
public ReadOnlyCollection<PackageApproval> Approvals { get; }
public:
property ReadOnlyCollection<PackageApproval^>^ Approvals {
    ReadOnlyCollection<PackageApproval^>^ get ();
}
/** @property */
public ReadOnlyCollection<PackageApproval> get_Approvals ()
public function get Approvals () : ReadOnlyCollection<PackageApproval>

Property Value

The list of approvals for this package. The list is sorted in order of descending priority.

Remarks

To determine the effective approval action of this package on a given

client, do the following:

1) Get the set of target groups to which the client belongs.

2) Iterate over the set of approvals in the order in which it was returned, searching for an approval that matches one of the target groups to which the client belongs.

3) Stop searching when the first match is found. This is the effective approval for this client.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

Target Platforms

Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2

See Also

Reference

SoftwareMetadata Class
SoftwareMetadata Members
Microsoft.UpdateServices.ClientServicing Namespace