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SCardReleaseContext

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

This function closes an established resource manager context, freeing any resources allocated under that context, including SCARDHANDLE objects and memory allocated using the SCARD_AUTOALLOCATE length designator.

Syntax

LONG SCardReleaseContext(
  SCARDCONTEXT hContext 
);

Parameters

  • hContext
    [in] Handle to the resource manager context. The resource manager context is set by a previous call to SCardEstablishContext.

Return Value

The following table shows the possible return values.

Value Description

SCARD_S_SUCCESS

Succeeds

An error value (see Smart Card Error Values for a list of all error values).

Fails

Requirements

Header winscard.h
Library winscard.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 3.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also

Reference

SCardEstablishContext