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Getting a Descriptive Error Message for a Windows System Error Code
https://giodicanio.com/2025/10/14/getting-a-descriptive-error-message-for-a-windows-system-error-code/
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Let's see how to wrap the low-level and kind of "kitchen sink" C-interface FormatMessage Windows API in convenient C++ code, to get the error message string corresponding to a Windows system error code.
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