Update project description using PSI

hello forum members,
Does anyone know how to update a project description using PSI in an existing project? I can't see any methods or class members that let me do this. Any suggestions
are appreciated.
tatiana
tatiana

never mind. got it.
the code is below:
SvcProject.ProjectDataSet projectds = projectClient.ReadProject(projectGuid, SvcProject.DataStoreEnum.WorkingStore);
projectds.Project[0].WPROJ_DESCRIPTION = "test programmatically added description";
tatiana

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