<div class="content" name="AppDelete" uuid="f4683981-4b25-46fa-9017-90cb0f08466c"><p>The AppDelete method deletes the application from the
specified <a href="1243ba70-74ca-44f9-be0b-dfd6697010b4#gt_086b13f2-2715-4000-a16c-6acc3d59cc19" data-linktype="relative-path">metabase</a> path.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT AppDelete(
   [in, unique, string] LPCWSTR szMDPath,
   [in] BOOL fRecursive
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>szMDPath: </b>A pointer to a Unicode string that
contains the metabase path of the application. </p><p><b>fRecursive: </b>A flag indicating whether
application definitions are also to be deleted from all subkeys (TRUE) or just
from the application at this key (FALSE).</p><p><b>Return Values: </b> A signed 32-bit value that
indicates return status. If the method returns a negative value, it failed. If
the 12-bit facility code (bits 16–27) is set to 0x007, the value contains a
Win32 error code in the lower 16 bits. Zero or positive values indicate
success, with the lower 16 bits in positive nonzero values containing warnings
or flags defined in the method implementation. For more information about Win32
error codes and <a href="../ms-dtyp/a9046ed2-bfb2-4d56-a719-2824afce59ac" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a>
values, see <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>.
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<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>0x00000000 S_OK</td>
  <td>The call was successful.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0x80070057 E_INVALIDARG</td>
  <td>One or more arguments are invalid.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0x80070003 ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND</td>
  <td>The system cannot find the path specified.</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p>The <a href="1243ba70-74ca-44f9-be0b-dfd6697010b4#gt_e127848e-c66d-427d-b3aa-9f904fa4ada7" data-linktype="relative-path">opnum</a>
field value for this method is 4. </p><p>When processing this call, the server MUST do the following:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>If the string length of the <i>szMDPath</i> parameter is &lt;=
10, return E_INVALIDARG.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>If the metabase path specified by <i>szMDPath</i> does not exist,
return ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>If there is no application defined at the metabase path specified
by <i>szMDPath</i>, return S_OK.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Delete the application. If <i>fRecursive</i> parameter is TRUE,
delete applications at all child paths of <i>szMDPath</i>.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Remove the <a href="5df9ca57-2a81-4ff4-97d5-fd39aa6731af" data-linktype="relative-path">MD_APP_ISOLATED</a>
and <a href="941aefe0-7996-4614-ac1e-b899c6ff8b7e" data-linktype="relative-path">MD_APP_ROOT</a>
properties from <i>szMDPath</i>. If <i>fRecursive</i> is TRUE, remove these
properties from all child paths of <i>szMDPath</i>.</p>
</li></ul></div>