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FileProtectionManager.GetProtectionInfoAsync(IStorageItem) Method

Definition

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Note

Starting in July 2022, Microsoft is deprecating Windows Information Protection (WIP) and the APIs that support WIP. Microsoft will continue to support WIP on supported versions of Windows. New versions of Windows won't include new capabilities for WIP, and it won't be supported in future versions of Windows. For more information, see Announcing sunset of Windows Information Protection.

For your data protection needs, Microsoft recommends that you use Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Purview simplifies the configuration set-up and provides an advanced set of capabilities.

Get the status of an enterprise-protected file.

public:
 static IAsyncOperation<FileProtectionInfo ^> ^ GetProtectionInfoAsync(IStorageItem ^ source);
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.RemoteAsync]
 static IAsyncOperation<FileProtectionInfo> GetProtectionInfoAsync(IStorageItem const& source);
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.RemoteAsync]
public static IAsyncOperation<FileProtectionInfo> GetProtectionInfoAsync(IStorageItem source);
function getProtectionInfoAsync(source)
Public Shared Function GetProtectionInfoAsync (source As IStorageItem) As IAsyncOperation(Of FileProtectionInfo)

Parameters

source
IStorageItem

The file or folder for which protection status is being queried.

Returns

When the call to this method completes successfully, it returns a FileProtectionInfo object that contains the status of the file.

Attributes

Windows requirements

Requirements Description
App capabilities
enterpriseDataPolicy

Applies to

See also

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