ErrorDescription Field

An English description of an error code that caused the failure. Used only by the DialogMessages.Error dialog for both the extraction error and the ExecuteAfter error.

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
Public Const ErrorDescription As String

'Usage
 
Dim value As String

 

value = Variables.ErrorDescription

public const string ErrorDescription

Remarks

If files were skipped during the extraction, the description will include a reason for why one file was skipped.

For the ExecuteAfter error message, the error code will be the value returned by the Windows function GetLastError() after ShellExecuteEx() or CreateProcess() failed. The description will come from the output of the Windows function FormatMessage() using the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag.

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

Variables Class
Variables Members