pragma deleteclass

The pragma deleteclass preprocessor command deletes an existing class and its instances from the repository.

The following describes the syntax:

#pragma deleteclass("ClassName", [Flag])

ClassName is the name of the class that the MOF compiler deletes from the current namespace.

[Flag] must be one of the following arguments.

Flag	Description
fail	Causes the MOF compiler to quit with an error message if the class does not already exist in the repository.
nofail	Causes the MOF compiler to continue even if the class does not already exist.

Examples

The following example shows how to use this command.

#pragma deleteclass("MyClass1",FAIL)

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows Vista
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008