nf-namespaceapi-openprivatenamespacew.md

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NF:namespaceapi.OpenPrivateNamespaceW	Sync	OpenPrivateNamespaceW	08/05/2022	Windows	The OpenPrivateNamespaceW (Unicode) function (namespaceapi.h) opens a private namespace.		function		Kernel32.dll	namespaceapi.h					Kernel32.lib				Windows Vista [desktop apps \| UWP apps]	Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps \| UWP apps]	Windows				apiref	DllExport	Kernel32.dll API-MS-Win-Core-Namespace-l1-1-0.dll KernelBase.dll API-MS-Win-DownLevel-Kernel32-l1-1-0.dll API-Ms-Win-Core-Namespace-Ansi-L1-1-0.dll Kernel32Legacy.dll	OpenPrivateNamespaceW	OpenPrivateNamespaceW namespaceapi/OpenPrivateNamespaceW	c++

OpenPrivateNamespaceW function

-description

Opens a private namespace.

-parameters

-param lpBoundaryDescriptor [in]

A descriptor that defines how the namespace is to be isolated. The CreateBoundaryDescriptor function creates a boundary descriptor.

-param lpAliasPrefix [in]

The prefix for the namespace. To create an object in this namespace, specify the object name as prefix\objectname.

-returns

The function returns the handle to the existing namespace.

-remarks

To compile an application that uses this function, define _WIN32_WINNT as 0x0600 or later.

-see-also

ClosePrivateNamespace
CreateBoundaryDescriptor
CreatePrivateNamespace
Object Namespaces