ATL Attribute Provider Errors

The table below lists the errors that the ATL Attribute Provider (ATLPROV) is known to be capable of issuing in version 7.00.9466.0. Text for each error message is reproduced from the corresponding resource string in the executable, with placeholders resolved as much as possible in the style of the product documentation.

Error numbers that the product documentation does not list among the ATL Provider Errors and Warnings are highlighted yellow. There are only two, and one of these is obviously never meant to occur (and Microsoft perhaps does not even realise that it can). That the product documentation’s list is so close to complete is remarkable only because it is so unusual. For rather many error numbers, the product documentation provides no more detail than does this page’s list: it reproduces the message text, but with no additional comment. One error, ATL2234, is listed by the product documentation but is omitted here because it actually occurs as a warning (and is therefore listed here among the ATL Warnings).

ATL errors feed back to the compiler as error C2338. The message text for the compiler error then gives the ATL details, citing an attribute as well as showing the ATL error number and the ATL message text:

position : error C2338: attribute
        Atl Attribute Provider : error ATLnumber: message

Given that this compiler error is so plainly described as originating with the ATL Attribute Provider, it perhaps does not matter that C2338 does not appear in the product documentation’s list of C/C++ Build Errors.