StorageLibraryLastChangeId Class

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Windows.Storage

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Allows you to track changes based on a unique value representing the last change processed by the indexing service for the given StorageFolder or StorageLibrary.

public ref class StorageLibraryLastChangeId sealed

/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, 720896)]
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingBehavior(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingType.Agile)]
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Threading(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ThreadingModel.Both)]
class StorageLibraryLastChangeId final

[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 720896)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingBehavior(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingType.Agile)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Threading(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ThreadingModel.Both)]
public sealed class StorageLibraryLastChangeId

Public NotInheritable Class StorageLibraryLastChangeId

Inheritance: Object Platform::Object IInspectable StorageLibraryLastChangeId

Attributes: ContractVersionAttribute MarshalingBehaviorAttribute ThreadingAttribute

Windows requirements

Device family	Windows 10, version 2104 (introduced in 10.0.20348.0)
API contract	Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced in v12.0)

Examples

// applications are expected to persist the previous value
UINT64 appsLastPersistedChangeId = StorageLibraryLastChangeId::Unknown();
StorageFolder folder = StorageFolder::GetFolderFromPathAsync(L"my folder path").get();

StorageLibraryChangeTracker tracker = folder.TryGetChangeTracker();
if (tracker != nullptr)
{
StorageLibraryChangeTrackerOptions ops;
ops.TrackChangeDetails(false);
tracker.Enable(ops);

StorageLibraryChangeReader reader = tracker.GetChangeReader();
if (reader != nullptr)
{
    UINT32 changeId = reader.GetLastChangeId();
    if ((changeId == StorageLibraryLastChangeId::Unknown())
    {
        ScanFolderSlow();
    }
    else if (changeId == 0)
    {
        // no changes in the storage folder yet, OR nothing has changed
        ProcessNormalApplicationStartup();
    }
    else if (changeId != appsLastPersistedChangeId)
    {
        // There have been new changes since we’ve last ran, process them
        appsLastPersistedChangeId = changeId;
        ScanFolderForChanges();
    }
    else
    {
        // changeId and our last persisted change id match, also normal application startup
        ProcessNormalApplicationStartup();
    }
}
}

Properties

Unknown

Returned when the USN journal overflows and the service cannot keep up with changes or there is another reason the change id cannot be computed.

Applies to