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FwpmProviderContextGetById2 function (fwpmu.h)

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The FwpmProviderContextGetById2 function retrieves a provider context.

Note  FwpmProviderContextGetById2 is the specific implementation of FwpmProviderContextGetById used in Windows 8. See WFP Version-Independent Names and Targeting Specific Versions of Windows for more information. For Windows 7, FwpmProviderContextGetById1 is available. For Windows Vista, FwpmProviderContextGetById0 is available.
 

Syntax

DWORD FwpmProviderContextGetById2(
  [in]  HANDLE                 engineHandle,
  [in]  UINT64                 id,
  [out] FWPM_PROVIDER_CONTEXT2 **providerContext
);

Parameters

[in] engineHandle

Type: HANDLE

Handle for an open session to the filter engine. Call FwpmEngineOpen0 to open a session to the filter engine.

[in] id

Type: UINT64

A run-time identifier for the desired object. This must be the run-time identifier that was received from the system when the application called FwpmProviderContextAdd2 for this object.

[out] providerContext

Type: FWPM_PROVIDER_CONTEXT2**

The provider context information.

Return value

Type: DWORD

Return code/value Description
ERROR_SUCCESS
0
 The provider context was retrieved successfully.
FWP_E_* error code
0x80320001—0x80320039
 A Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) specific error. See WFP Error Codes for details.
RPC_* error code
0x80010001—0x80010122
 Failure to communicate with the remote or local firewall engine.

Remarks

The caller must free the returned object by a call to FwpmFreeMemory0.

The caller needs FWPM_ACTRL_READ access to the provider context. See Access Control for more information.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows 8 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2012 [desktop apps only]
Target Platform Windows
Header fwpmu.h
Library Fwpuclnt.lib
DLL Fwpuclnt.dll

See also

FWPM_PROVIDER_CONTEXT2

FwpmProviderContextAdd2