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Posted: 03/23/97, last update: 03/23/97

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Win32Errors: How to obtain descriptions of a Win32 error codes

If a description of a Visual Basic run-time error can be obtained with the Err object's Description property (or with the Error function), why couldn't a description of a Win32 API error be obtained? Well it can, of course...

Win32err.zip contains sample code implementing the FormatMessage() API call which returns a description of every error code defined by Win32 in Win95 or WinNT (OLE error codes too). We're talking over 1000 of them. It's a pretty cool code. So cool you'll find it in Issue #2 of the 1997 VB Tips & Tricks help file.

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