Error.HelpContext Property (Versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.5, 2.6)Error.HelpFile Property

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Error.HelpContext Property, Error.HelpFile Property — (Versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.5, 2.6)

                     helpcontext = error.HelpContext
helpfile = error.HelpFile

The HelpContext and HelpFile properties indicate the topic and the name, respectively, of a particular error within an Error object.

Long (HelpContext Property)

String (HelpFile Property)

The HelpFile property contains a fully qualified path to a Windows Help file.

The HelpContext property automatically displays a Help topic from the Windows Help file that is indicated through the HelpFile property.

If no Help topic is relevant to the generated error, the HelpContext property returns zero, and the HelpFile property returns an empty string (“”).

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