IVsLibrary2.UpdateCounter Method

Returns the current change counter for the library and is used to indicate that the library contents have changed.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function UpdateCounter ( _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef pCurUpdate As UInteger _
) As Integer
'Usage
Dim instance As IVsLibrary2
Dim pCurUpdate As UInteger
Dim returnValue As Integer

returnValue = instance.UpdateCounter(pCurUpdate)

int UpdateCounter(
    out uint pCurUpdate
)

int UpdateCounter(
    [OutAttribute] unsigned int% pCurUpdate
)

abstract UpdateCounter : 
        pCurUpdate:uint32 byref -> int

function UpdateCounter(
    pCurUpdate : uint
) : int

Parameters

pCurUpdate
Type: System.UInt32%
[out] Returns the current update counter.

Return Value

Type: System.Int32
If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

COM Signature

From vsshell80.idl:

HRESULT IVsLibrary2::UpdateCounter(
   [out] ULONG *pCurUpdate
);

The update counter is incremented any time an update is made to a library. The environment calls this method to get the current update counter to determine if it is necessary to again query a library object.

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.