<div class="content"><p>The IUpdateHistoryEntry::Description (opnum 14) method
retrieves the description of the update for which the operation is performed.</p><dl>
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<div><pre> HRESULT Description(
   [out, retval] BSTR* retval
 );
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</dd></dl><p><b>retval: </b>The localized description of the
update for which the operation is performed. The description SHOULD be in the
language of the user who initiated the operation but MAY be in the language of
the current calling user. If there is no description of the update, the retval
MUST be set either to NULL or to 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 result of the <b>Description</b>
ADM element.</p></div>