Question

What exactly does this exception mean, and why it is happening?

More info:

This is where it happens:

Id = GlobalAddAtom("aString");

if (Marshal.GetLastWin32Error() != 0)
{ throw new Win32Exception(); }

I know that GlobalAddAtom is indeed in kernel32.dll (that's where I'm DllImporting it from).

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Solution

GetLastError returns the last error that any API function triggered.

Check that the returned Id value is zero - only in that case did GlobalAddAtom fail.

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