CreationCollisionOption Enum
Definition
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Specifies what to do if a file or folder with the specified name already exists in the current folder when you create a new file or folder.
public enum class CreationCollisionOption/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, 65536)]
enum class CreationCollisionOption[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 65536)]
public enum CreationCollisionOptionvar value = Windows.Storage.CreationCollisionOption.generateUniqueNamePublic Enum CreationCollisionOption- Inheritance
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CreationCollisionOption
- Attributes
Windows requirements
| Device family |
Windows 10 (introduced in 10.0.10240.0)
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| API contract |
Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced in v1.0)
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Fields
| Name | Value | Description |
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| GenerateUniqueName | 0 | Automatically append a number to the base of the specified name if the file or folder already exists. For example, if |
| ReplaceExisting | 1 | Replace the existing item if the file or folder already exists. |
| FailIfExists | 2 | Raise an exception of type System.Exception if the file or folder already exists. Methods that don't explicitly pass a value from the CreationCollisionOption enumeration use the FailIfExists value as the default when you try to create, rename, copy, or move a file or folder. |
| OpenIfExists | 3 | Return the existing item if the file or folder already exists. |
Remarks
Methods that don't explicitly pass a value from the CreationCollisionOption enumeration use the FailIfExists value as the default when you create a file or folder.
For example, the CreateFileAsync method has one overload, CreateFileAsync (String, .CreationCollisionOption), that explicitly passes a value from the CreationCollisionOption enumeration. If you call the other overload, CreateFileAsync (String), the method uses the FailIfExists option as the default.