>Folks,
>
>I had an easy time translating VBA synatx into Fox as far as obtaining an object references to a message attachment.
>
>Oddly enough, nothing seems to work after this. I can access no properties or methods of the attachment object. Everything comes back with an OLE error 'Uknown name.' What am I doing wrong? Is there some gotcha in here I am unaware of?
>
>The only thing I can get returned is Attachments.Count property, which gives 1, as expected.
>
>ENVIRONMENT:
>Win 2k Server
>Office 2k Pro
>
>WHAT WORKS SO FAR:
>

>public olMAPI,om,ofld
>
>olMAPI = createObject("Outlook.Application")
>om = olmapi.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
>ofld = om.Folders(1).Folders("temp")
>
>? oFld.Items.Count
>? oFld.Items(x).Attachments.Count
>

>
>According to the documentation, any of the following should work:
>
>oFld.Items(x).Attachments(1).WriteToFile("Temp.Txt")
>oFld.Items(x).Attachments(1).Name
>
>none of them do!
>
>Any help?
>
>TIA

Could it be that both the Folders and Attachments collections start at 0 instead of 1?

If the assignment to oFld didn't return an object then any reference to oFld will give the error message you're experiencing.