Is there a way to get the string representation of HRESULT value using win API?

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You can use _com_error:

_com_error err(hr);
LPCTSTR errMsg = err.ErrorMessage();

If you don’t want to use _com_error for whatever reason, you can still take a look at its source, and see how it’s done.

Don’t forget to include the header comdef.h

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