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SafeHandleMinusOneIsInvalid Class

Provides a base class for Win32 safe handle implementations in which the value of -1 indicates an invalid handle.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

[SecurityPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, UnmanagedCode = true)]
[SecurityPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, UnmanagedCode = true)]
public abstract class SafeHandleMinusOneIsInvalid : SafeHandle

This class derives from the System.Runtime.InteropServices.SafeHandle class. It describes the format of an invalid handle that uses a value of -1. Further derivations of this class (for example, file or registry handles) can specialize this further. See the SafeFileHandle class for an example of a class that derives from SafeHandleMinusOneIsInvalid.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

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