pragma deleteinstance

The pragma deleteinstance command deletes an existing instance of a class from the repository.

The following describes the syntax for this command:

#pragma deleteinstance("InstanceId", [Flag])

InstanceId is a unique identifier of the instance 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 deleteinstance(
    "MSFT_RisingFallingTemplate.id='TestRisingFallingCorrId'",
    nofail)

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