wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I would like to use one of the error codes defined in WinError.h.
>There is no iclude anymore.
>I have put in "using System.Runtime.InteropServices" and the compiler
>still doesn't recognize the error code.
>There must be some way, other than defining it by myself...
>
>Anybody ?
>

Gary K wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:59:53 +0000, "Lady_A" <alevich@wavesys.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I would like to use one of the error codes defined in WinError.h.
>>There is no iclude anymore.
>>I have put in "using System.Runtime.InteropServices" and the compiler
>>still doesn't recognize the error code.
>>There must be some way, other than defining it by myself...
>>
>>Anybody ?
>>
>
>
> Greetings & Salutations,
>
> Sorry but you will have to define it yourself.
>
> From my understanding, C# (and other .NET languages) are not meant to
> refer to the Windows API in any 'normal' way.
>
> This isn't too hard though (but still time consuming if you want to do
> all the errors). Just write a sealed class with the error code
> constants in it. Then you can refer to it in code as
> WinError.ERR_CODE.
>
> public sealed class WinError {
> public const int ERR_CODE = <errnum>;
> }
>
> Although if you use the SUCCESS/FAILED macros, you will have to write
> these into code. Maybe as static methods of the sealed class?
>
> If you're lucky, someone has already done this work and posted it
> somewhere on the net.
>