In Microsoft javascript is it possible to get the textual description of an error coming from an HRESULT?

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I know the Error object http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dww52sbt in Microsoft javascript.

Some errors come from an HRESULT and they have a valid number property (for example -2147023570 which maps to 0x8007052E, see for example "Making Sense of HRESULTS" by Eric Lippert http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2003/10/22/53267.aspx ) but the message property (or description property) is empty (in my example the text is "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.")

I can wrap a FormatMessage call (or _com_error::ErrorMessage) in a COM object and then call it from my script (it is a script launched with cscript from the command line) but I would like to know whether it is possible to get the textual description without an external component but just relying on a "standard" Windows installation.

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asked on Stack Overflow Oct 11, 2011 by Alessandro Jacopson • edited Oct 12, 2011 by Alessandro Jacopson

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