MSMQ BodyType Integer Allocation

Question

I couldn't find anything about the BodyType-Property (beside the MSDN), especially nothing about the meaning of each integer. So I created messages with BodyTypes = 0...1000 and wrote down the result into an Excel-sheet. I hope this is helpful for someone.

Busyness

Answer 1

Maybe there are even more BodyTypes and someone could add them

Busyness

I read somewhere that if a Message has a BodyType of VT_EMPTY but the Body has content, then it's parsed as a byte[] exactly as if it were of type VT_ARRAY | VT_UI1 – Baese

Answer 2

Even though the question and answer are two years old, it sometimes helps to dig through the C++ documentation when dealing with obscure MS API's. This is no exception.

PROPID_M_BODY_TYPE

Describes the body types, and what the body should contain.

What continues to be unclear to me is weather these values should have custom values when creating a custom format handler.

Spermaceti