Question: How does the new Picture feature in Outlook 2003 Contacts work?

[Don 'Bear' Wilkinson]

I have read that the image is resized as needed. I assume it has the
good manners to *not* resize the source image. This implies that the
resulting image data is 'embedded' not linked. True?

I'd like to know where/how the image data is stored. Assuming it's kept
in the profile data store, this means that our PSTs or mailbox folders
on Exchange will be getting that much larger, right?

Bear

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

It's kept in an attachment on the item with the picture and can be
accessed using code and the ContactItem.HasPicture, .RemovePicture and
..AddPicture property and methods. So if you add a picture to an item
the size of the item grows by the size of the picture attachment.

 

[Don 'Bear' Wilkinson]

Hello Ken,
Thank for the information. Based on this, I was able to learn that the
image size, at least in the case of the one sample Contact that I played
with, is 72x90pixels. The JPEG image's data size was 1.9Kb, compressed
form 19Kb (10:1). Very reasonable. Interestingly, the file name for
the picture is "ContactPicture.jpg". I would have expected some
randomly or sequentially generated series of characters as a file name.


Thanks,
Don/Bear