<div class="content" name="ClientApplicationID" uuid="bdb42301-afce-44e6-bf9f-b993d4cc75fe"><p>The IUpdateSession::ClientApplicationID (opnum 8) method
retrieves the identifier of the calling application.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT ClientApplicationID(
   [out, retval] BSTR* retval
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>retval: </b>The identifier of the calling
application previously set using the IUpdateSession::ClientApplicationID (opnum
9) (section <span><a href="71fa024d-4666-4469-8f83-bc850729a728" data-linktype="relative-path">3.16.4.2)</a></span> method.
If no identifier was previously set, this MUST be NULL or the empty string.</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>ClientApplicationID</b>
ADM element.</p></div>