GetNumResults Method in Class SMS_Collection

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Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

The GetNumResults Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) class method gets a count of all members in a collection, not including subcollections.

The following syntax is simplified from Managed Object Format (MOF) code and is intended to show the definition of the method.

SInt32 GetNumResults(
     ref:SMS_Collection Collection,
     UInt32 Result
);

Parameters

  • Collection
    Data type: ref:SMS_Collection

    Qualifiers: [in]

    Collection ID or object path of the collection. The collection ID is the value of the CollectionID property of SMS_Collection Server WMI Class.

  • Result
    Data type: UInt32

    Qualifiers: [out]

    Number of collection members.

Return Values

An SInt32 data type that is 0 to indicate success or non-zero to indicate failure.

For information about handling returned errors, see About Configuration Manager Errors.

Example Code

The following example shows how to call the GetNumResults method to get the number of collection members. Specify either a CollectionID value or the full path, such as "SMS_Collection.CollectionID=""SMS00003""".

    Dim clsCollection As SWbemObject        'SMS_Collection class definition
    Dim Results As Long                     ' Number of collection members

    Set clsCollection = Services.Get("SMS_Collection")
    clsCollection.GetNumResults "<collectionid>", Results

Requirements

Runtime Requirements

For more information, see Configuration Manager Server Runtime Requirements.

Development Requirements

For more information, see Configuration Manager Server Development Requirements.

See Also

Reference

SMS_Collection Server WMI Class