FLATENTRY 

The FLATENTRY structure is an ENTRYID structure plus a byte count that specifies the size of the ENTRYID structure.

Quick Info

typedef struct

{ 

     ULONG  cb;

     BYTE   abEntry[MAPI_DIM];

} FLATENTRY, FAR *LPFLATENTRY;

Members

cb

Count of bytes in the abEntry member.

abEntry

The complete entry identifier, including the array of flags and binary data.

Remarks

There are two differences between a FLATENTRY structure and an ENTRYID structure:

    FLATENTRY stores the size of the entry identifier; ENTRYID does not.

    FLATENTRY stores the flag data together with the rest of the entry identifier; ENTRYID stores them separately.

A FLATENTRY structure is used to store an entry identifier in a file or pass it in a stream of bytes whereas an ENTRYID structure is used by the IMAPIProp methods and by the OpenEntry methods. When an entry identifier needs to be stored on disk, it must be stored in an ENTRYID structure. A FLATENTRY structure cannot be used because there are byte order problems with storing the size.

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