<div class="content" name="WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE_NOCLASS" uuid="214294c9-e1d9-4c70-b54b-fc1e0d86756b"><p>The WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE_NOCLASS structure MUST contain a <a href="6837a7cb-ba2d-46b1-802c-fce2fd5a6ad6#gt_a99173af-90bf-473d-9a81-ff0ce9a85838" data-linktype="relative-path">CIM</a> instance without the <a href="6837a7cb-ba2d-46b1-802c-fce2fd5a6ad6#gt_633b12d4-e2c4-442f-95ff-4b2b5d708ed5" data-linktype="relative-path">CIM class</a> definition. </p><table>
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  <td colspan="32">dwSizeOfHeader</td>
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  <td colspan="32">classID (16 bytes)</td>
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</tbody></table><p><b>dwSizeOfHeader (4 bytes): </b>The size, in bytes,
of the header, which MUST be 0x00000018.</p><p><b>dwSizeOfData (4 bytes): </b>The size, in bytes, of
the data that follows the header. </p><p><b>classID (16 bytes): </b>The unique identifier of
the CIM class type. </p><p><b>ObjectData (variable): </b>Contains the string of
bytes that represent the <a href="6837a7cb-ba2d-46b1-802c-fce2fd5a6ad6#gt_c4119a8a-24db-40cc-9657-7cb5c23ecf43" data-linktype="relative-path">CIM
instance</a>, encoded as the <a href="../ms-wmio/dcc02470-f9ce-47af-9c73-cf7dc97b35af" data-linktype="relative-path">EncodingUnitInstanceNoClass</a>
object block, as specified in <a href="../ms-wmio/b44d0581-5bd3-40fc-95d7-01c1b1239820" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-WMIO]</a>
section 2.2.3. The CIM instance transmitted using EncodingUnitInstanceNoClass
does not have a <a href="../ms-wmio/f96cdea8-07cc-4b62-bd8a-84dd38c6cd88" data-linktype="relative-path">CurrentClass</a>
block (as specified in [MS-WMIO] section 2.2.13) to minimize the data
transmitted because CurrentClass contains the same data for all the <a href="6837a7cb-ba2d-46b1-802c-fce2fd5a6ad6#gt_94e80069-5f2a-4281-a676-50ea656c4795" data-linktype="relative-path">CIM instances</a>.</p><p>The CurrentClass for another instance of the same CIM class
is previously sent using the <a href="25070492-4737-4c89-b152-924a58d5c2f3" data-linktype="relative-path">WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE</a>
structure. To match the WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE structure that has the CurrentClass
block, the classID specified in WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE_NOCLASS MUST be matched
with the classID of WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE. If a matching WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE is
found, the CurrentClass block in the WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE MUST be used to encode
or decode EncodingUnitInstanceNoClass. If no matching WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE is
found during decoding, it MUST be treated as an error. If no matching
WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE is found during encoding, the CIM instance MUST be encoded
as a WBEMOBJECT_INSTANCE structure.</p></div>