<div class="content" name="ReadOnly" uuid="f65143c3-e073-412a-9b53-e395dd1653a1"><p>The IUpdateCollection::ReadOnly (opnum 12) method returns
whether the collection is read-only.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT ReadOnly(
   [out, retval] VARIANT_BOOL* retval
 );
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</dd></dl><p><b>retval: </b>MUST be set either to VARIANT_TRUE if
the collection is read-only, or to VARIANT_FALSE if it is not.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>The method MUST return
information in an <b>HRESULT</b> data structure. The severity bit in the
structure identifies the following conditions:</p><ul><li><p><span><span>  </span></span>If
the severity bit is set to 0, the method completed successfully.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span>  </span></span>If
the severity bit is set to 1, the method failed and encountered a fatal error.</p>
</li></ul><p><b>Exceptions Thrown:</b> No exceptions are thrown beyond
those thrown by the underlying RPC protocol <span><a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a></span>.</p><p>This method SHOULD return the value of the <b>ReadOnly</b>
ADM element.</p></div>