.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell

Name

Win32Exception

Synopsis

This class encapsulates an exception that is thrown to wrap the failure of a Win32 native method call. The NativeErrorCode property can retrieve the underlying Win32 error code that caused the exception to be thrown.

public class Win32Exception : System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException {

// Public Constructors

   public Win32Exception();

   public Win32Exception(int error);

   public Win32Exception(int error, string message);

// Protected Constructors

   protected Win32Exception(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo info, 

        System.Runtime.Serialization.StreamingContext context);

// Public Instance Properties

   public int NativeErrorCode{get; }

// Public Instance Methods

   public override void GetObjectData(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo info,  

        System.Runtime.Serialization.StreamingContext context);  // overrides Exception

}

Hierarchy

System.Object → System.Exception(System.Runtime.Serialization.ISerializable) → System.SystemException → System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException → Win32Exception

Subclasses

System.Net.Sockets.SocketException