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Summary info (Author, Subject, Company, Keywords, Category, ...) in Windows 2000 server and later. For ALL Type of files.

Hi all,

I know DSOleFile is on the net and i use it for most of the files. But when I try to get the summary info for a pdf or even a xml file it gives me an error.!

Any idea or coding I could use to get the summary info of pdf files and xml files. Actually I'd like to have that for any type of file.

So if you can give me the right coding in C# or VB.net or something like that for summary info of .doc .xls .pdf .xml .vsd .jpg .tif .msg you get the points.

This is what I had. It works for most of the documents but not all :)

Sub GetCProps()
Dim oFilePropReader As DSOleFile.PropertyReader
Dim oDocProp As DSOleFile.DocumentProperties

Path = "c:\test\doc.pdf"

Try
oFilePropReader = New DSOleFile.PropertyReader
oDocProp = oFilePropReader.GetDocumentProperties(path)
MessageBox.Show("Author: " & oDocProp.Author & vbCrLf & "Title: " & oDocProp.Title & vbCrLf & "Subject: " & oDocProp.Subject)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString)
End Try

End Sub

Good luck :p

David Lee

DSOleFile is really intended for getting properties of MSOffice files, although Microsoft says it'll work for any OLE compound document when used on Windows 2000, and presumably later, with an NTFS file system. Here's a link to a Microsoft Knowledgebase article that details that: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224351. There's another approach though that seems to work for any document. Here's a link to a page that describes it: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/filefolder/scrff64.mspx The code here is VBScript which should be simple enough to convert to straight VB. I've tested this code with a variety of files including jpg, gif, html, etc. and it works for all of them. I don't have a single pdf file that has any properties so I haven't been able to test it against this type of file.

Alexdelen

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this link doesn't seem to work for me: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/filefolder/scrff64.mspx

Can you put the code over here?

Thanks

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Alexdelen

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Found it in the meanwhile.

Great job on this. One more additional question do you know any code to modify those props?