_GlobalConfig::Initialize Method [C++]

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11/12/2009

Use this method to load the global configuration from the Administration database.

Definition

[C++]

HRESULT _GlobalConfig::Initialize(BSTRbstrGroupName);

[Visual Basic]

Sub Initialize(Optional bstrGroupName As String)

Parameters

bstrGroupName[C++]
[in, optional] A BSTR that contains the name of the global resource.
bstrGroupName[Visual Basic]
A String that contains the name of the global resource.

Return Values

[C++] This method returns an HRESULT indicating whether it completed successfully. See the Error Values section for more details.

[Visual Basic] None.

Error Values

[C++] This method returns S_OK (0x00000000) to indicate success and standard COM HRESULT error values to indicate failure. For more information about standard COM errors, see Standard COM Errors. Additional information may be available using the global Err object, which can be accessed using the API function GetErrorInfo. In particular, the GetDescription method of the IErrorInfo interface may return a text description of the error.

[Visual Basic] This method sets the Number property of the global Err object to S_OK (&H00000000) to indicate success and to standard COM error values to indicate failure. For more information about standard COM errors, see Standard COM Errors. Additional information may be available using the global Err object. In particular, the Description property may contain a text description of the error.

All ADO, SQL, and ODBC errors will also be returned by this method.

Remarks

On Developer Edition installations, code will be run to ensure that the maximum number of connections for an IIS Web site that hosts a Commerce Server 2002 application is no greater than 5.

For more information about memory ownership issues related to COM property and method parameters, see Managing COM Parameter Memory.