Re: File MetaData (Summary)

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Alright, after several days of tireless translation, I've figured out how this stuff works.

The basic rundown is as follows:

The metadata you're looking for is actually made possible by the NTFS filesystem. That is, if you try to find these properties on a FAT32-formatted drive, you come up empty-handed.

There isn't an assembly in the .NET canon directly responsible for accessing those properties, but it is possible to get at them via a couple of COM interfaces, namely IPropertyStorage and IPropertySetStorage. After some searching through the back alleys of the 'net, I found some VB .NET code that had been written to do exactly what I was searching for. I have since found a multitude of new reasons to hate Visual Basic, and despise the coding practices that seem to cling to it like a diseased remora.

Ahem.

I don't have a place to upload the code here, but if you'd like to email me at lcrabtree AT goisi DOT com, I'd be happy to provide what I've got.

Lee Crabtree

AlexL wrote:
G'Day

I'm trying to develop an application to manage my .pdf and .chm files. To do so, I want to access (read/write) the Metadata of the files, like File->Properties->Summary in the Windows explorer.

I already searched for solutions, but honestly I'm a bit lost... does somebody knows an 'idiots guide' for that problem or perhaps some C# lines of demo code?!

Cheers
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