How to get user readable error/warning code message

Hi Michael!
I've been there

Make a static helper method that converts the name of the enumrator to a string. Remove the "sw" and add a space after every capital letter. That's the easiest most convenient way to do it.

Your second example: swFileNameEmpty -> File Name Empty. That should be enough to describe the error.

If you really really want to get the enumrator's description off the help file. You can construct the api online help url from the name of the enumaration name:

help.solidworks.com/2013/English/api/swconst/SolidWorks.Interop.swconst~SolidWorks.Interop.swconst.ENUMERATIONNAME.html

Then you'll need a html processing library to be able to retrieve the DOM element that contains the enumrator's description. I do feel that this can be an overkill though.

Best,
Amen
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Here's a working C# example I wrote:

///<summary>
        /// Convert a SOLIDWORKS enum's enumarator to string
        /// Required: using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
        /// </summary>
        public static string convertEnumratationEnumatorToString(Enum Enum)
        {
            string enumrator = Enum.ToString().Replace("sw", string.Empty);
            var reg = new Regex("[A-Z]",RegexOptions.None);
            MatchCollection matches = reg.Matches(enumrator);
            foreach (Match match in matches)
            {
                string old = match.Value.ToString();
                string New = " " + match.Value.ToString();
                enumrator = enumrator.Replace(old,New);
            }
            return enumrator.TrimStart();
        }

Best,
Amen