Message Properties Dialog Box

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac

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Use this dialog box to find out more about a specific message. To display this dialog box, move the focus to a Messages View window. Select any message node in the tree, then choose Properties from the View menu.

The General tab is the only tab displayed. The following settings are available:

Window Handle The unique ID of this window. Window handle numbers are reused; they identify a window only for the lifetime of that window. Click this value to view the properties of this window.

Nesting Level Depth of nesting of this message, where 0 is no nesting.

Message Number, status, and name of the selected windows message.

lResult The value of the lResult parameter, if any.

wParam The value of the wParam parameter, if any.

lParam The value of the lParam parameter, if any. This value is decoded if it is a pointer to a string or structure.

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