ResourceRelease

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• Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

8/28/2008

This function allows drivers to use operating system (OS) resources created by ResourceCreateList.

Syntax

BOOL ResourceRelease(
  DWORD dwResId, 
  DWORD dwBase, 
  DWORD dwLen
);

Parameters

• dwResId
  [in] Resource identifier, which is a label for a set of numbers. The following table shows the existing resource identifiers and their values, which are defined in Resmgr.h.

  Resource identifier	Value
  RESMGR_IRQ	0x00001
  RESMGR_IOSPACE	0x00002

  Although some resource identifiers are for your use, values below RESMGR_BASE_OEM are reserved. Values greater than RESMGR_MAX_OEM are reserved for future use. The following table shows the resource identifiers that you can use and their values, which are defined in Resmgr.h.

  Resource identifier	Value
  RESMGR_BASE_OEM	0x00080000
  RESMGR_MAX_OEM	0x000FFFFF

• dwBase
  [in] Smallest numbered resource to release.

• dwLen
  [in] Number of resources to release. The range of resources released is dwBase + dwLen – 1.

Return Value

TRUE indicates success. FALSE indicates failure.

You cannot have a partial allocation or a partial release of resources.

Requirements

Header	winbase.h
Library	coredll.lib
Windows Embedded CE	Windows CE .NET 4.0 and later
Windows Mobile	Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also

Reference

ResourceCreateList
ResourceRequest