MessageField

Class

Superclasses

System.Object
  MessageField

Visual Basic

Public Class MessageField

C#

public class MessageField

Purpose

Represent a message field.

Remarks

This class has no destroy() method. Instead, the garbage collector reclaims storage automatically.

Method	Description	Page
Constructor
MessageField	Create a message field object.	MessageField

Member	Description
Public Instance Properties
Name	string Name of the field. Field names use ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding.	Get
Value	Snapshot value of the field. Datatype is implicit in the value.	Get
Identifier	ushort Unique field identifier.	Get
Public Static Fields
NoSpecificId	ushort; zero Supply this constant to indicate a null fieldId argument.
NoSpecificIndex	long; -1 Supply this constant to indicate a null fieldIndex argument.
NoSpecificInstance	uint; zero Supply this constant to indicate a null instanceNumber argument.

Implicit Conversions

This class defines implicit type conversions. When a program assigns a MessageField object to a variable of another type, the field object attempts to convert its Value property to the target type.

See Also

Message.AddField

Message.GetField

Message.RemoveField

Message.UpdateField