Outlook Subject Truncated for 255 characters

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Outlook Subject Truncated for 255 characters
 
Balaji


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Hi Team,

We are facing an issue while reading or getting the property value for Subject in Outlook using their type and if the subject contains 255 characters , last two or three characters gets truncated and it would result in only 252 or 253 characters in the Subject for the particular email. Please take a look into it and let me know the update.

object obj = explorer.Selection[i]; // GET SELECTION ITEM FROM OUTLOOK

Type type1 = obj.GetType(); //Explore it to Type

object result = type1.InvokeMember(
"Subject",
BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.GetField | BindingFlags.GetProperty,
null,
obj,
new object[] { }); //READ EMAIL SUBJECT

Print result.ToString() // GIVES ONLY 253 characters for Subject Property




Thanks,
Balaji Solayappan
Posted 23 May, 2017 04:59:30 Top
Andrei Smolin


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 Joined: 2006-05-11
Helo Balaji,

I've reproduced the issue using early binding and C#. The issue is also reproducible using VBA. I'm going to report this issue on the Outlook for Developers forum; I'll paste a link here once I have it.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 23 May, 2017 08:41:27 Top
Andrei Smolin


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 Joined: 2006-05-11
Here's the link: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4ec47ebb-3fc1-4855-95f9-ce626fbe5b52/bug-in-outlook-2016-mailitemsubject-returns-a-wrong-value?forum=outlookdev.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 23 May, 2017 10:06:01 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Posts: 18829
 Joined: 2006-05-11
Hello Balaji,

It looks like this issue may be a known one. Ken Slovak - an Outlook development guru - suggests using this pathway:

OutookApp.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1).GetInspector.CurrentItem.Subject

Remember to release COM objects!


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 29 May, 2017 08:46:53 Top
Balaji


Guest


Thanks Andrei.We will try it out and let you know in case of any questions.
Posted 30 May, 2017 03:18:20 Top