WiFiOnDemandHotspotNetworkProperties.Availability Property

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.Devices.WiFi

Note

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Important

This API will be affected by upcoming changes to operating system behavior, planned for fall 2024. For more info, see Changes to API behavior for Wi-Fi access and location.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the hotspot is in (or out of) range. You can use this info to determine whether the hotspot should be injected into (or removed from) the network list.

Note

If you want to use this API in a UWP app, and publish your app to the Microsoft Store, then you'll need to request special approval to use the custom capability Microsoft.onDemandHotspotControl_8wekyb3d8bbwe (the On-Demand Network capability). For more info, see Custom capabilities.

The On-Demand Network capability will be made available only to app developers building end-to-end Wi-Fi hotspot scenarios between a tethering-capable hardware device and a Windows PC.

public:
 property WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability Availability { WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability get(); void set(WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability value); };

WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability Availability();

void Availability(WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability value);

public WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability Availability { get; set; }

var wiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability = wiFiOnDemandHotspotNetworkProperties.availability;
wiFiOnDemandHotspotNetworkProperties.availability = wiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability;

Public Property Availability As WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability

Property Value

WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability

Windows requirements

App capabilities

onDemandHotspotControl

Remarks

Windows may hide stale networks before the operating system (OS) removes the network from the list, at which point Availability would return WiFiOnDemandHotspotAvailability.Unavailable.