What does HRESULT 0xC1250102 (WDSCP_E_CONFIG_STRING_REQUIRED) mean?

WDSCP_E_CONFIG_STRING_REQUIRED

WDSCP_E_CONFIG_STRING_REQUIRED is a missing-configuration error at the WDS content provider boundary. IWdsTransportNamespace exposes ContentProvider and Configuration as separate properties; selecting a provider does not automatically create the provider-specific configuration it requires.

Supply configuration before registering or using the namespace

• Read back both the namespace content-provider name and Configuration property.
• Ensure deployment automation does not drop an empty BSTR/null configuration while cloning or recreating a namespace.
• Validate required provider settings before a transmission starts, so content-open failures are not the first evidence of incomplete namespace configuration.

This status differs from WDSCP_E_INVALID_CONFIGURATION: here the provider requires a configuration string and none was provided; in the invalid case, a value exists but cannot be accepted. It also differs from WDSCP_E_NOT_A_DIRECTORY, where the provider parsed the configuration far enough to validate a path. Preserve those distinctions in configuration diagnostics because they point to different provisioning errors.

Namespace Configuration property · WDS namespace/content provider API · Provider initialization

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