OL97: Body Property Limited to 64 KB on Windows 95/98

• Microsoft Outlook 97

SYMPTOMS

You have an item that stores a large amount of text in the Message or Notes field, and when you programmatically access the data using the Outlook object model, only part of the data is retrieved.

CAUSE

This is a limitation of using Outlook on a computer running Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98.

RESOLUTION

Use one of the following methods to work around the problem:

• Use the Windows NT operating system. This limitation does not exist on a Windows NT system.
  
  -or-



• Redesign the Outlook form solution to ensure that there is always less than 64 KB of textual data in the Message or Notes field.

MORE INFORMATION

Assume for example, that you have 65 KB of data in the Message field of a mail message. The Message field is equivalent to the Body property in the Outlook object model. If you reference the Body property, the length will be 1 KB and the text returned will be the first 1 KB of the 65 KB that is actually there.

REFERENCES

For more information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook 97, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q166368 OL97: How to Get Help Programming with Outlook

Q170783 OL97: Q&A: Questions About Customizing or Programming Outlook

Additional query words: OutSol OutSol97 vbscript

Keywords          : kbdta OffVBS 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: May 10, 1999