OL98: Body Property Limited to 64 KB on Windows 95/98

• Microsoft Outlook 98

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 K 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 98, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q180826 OL98: Resources for Custom Forms and Programming

Q182349 OL98: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions

Additional query words: OutSol OutSol98 98

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

Last Reviewed: May 10, 1999