Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition
Description Property
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Description
Returns or sets a descriptive string associated with an error.

Syntax

object.Description [= stringexpression]

The Description property syntax has these parts:

Part Description
object Always the Err object.
stringexpression A string expression containing a description of the error.

Remarks

The Description property consists of a short description of the error. Use this property to alert the user to an error that you can't or don't want to handle. When generating a user-defined error, assign a short description of your error to this property. If Description isn't filled in, and the value of Number corresponds to a VBScript run-time error, the descriptive string associated the error is returned.


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