Advanced file properties
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How to gain access to advanced file properties? For example, I want access to file version Other Version Information comments. Or file summary title and comments. I was hoping FileInfo would have that but from what I can see it doesn’t Thanks
Ronald Hahn, CNT - Computer Engineering Technologist New Technologies Analyst HahnTech Affiliated With Code Constructors Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Email: rhahn82@telus.net
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How to gain access to advanced file properties? For example, I want access to file version Other Version Information comments. Or file summary title and comments. I was hoping FileInfo would have that but from what I can see it doesn’t Thanks
Ronald Hahn, CNT - Computer Engineering Technologist New Technologies Analyst HahnTech Affiliated With Code Constructors Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Email: rhahn82@telus.net
Hello I think you are talking more bout metadata? They are stored in the filestream itslef. In the Audio section[^] you'd find to articles about extracting metadata.
Regards:rose:
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Hello I think you are talking more bout metadata? They are stored in the filestream itslef. In the Audio section[^] you'd find to articles about extracting metadata.
Regards:rose:
Well the stuff over in audio is specific to WMF so it's not much help. I’m looking for metadata from NTFS. I’ve googled ‘file properties dialog’ ‘ntfs metadata’ and many other combinations and synonyms of these phrases. All I want to do is programmatically right click on an exe and view its version info. Thanks though. I can't belive this is so hard. It was supose to be a QnD utility Ron
Ronald Hahn, CNT - Computer Engineering Technologist New Technologies Analyst HahnTech Affiliated With Code Constructors Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Email: rhahn82@telus.net
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Well the stuff over in audio is specific to WMF so it's not much help. I’m looking for metadata from NTFS. I’ve googled ‘file properties dialog’ ‘ntfs metadata’ and many other combinations and synonyms of these phrases. All I want to do is programmatically right click on an exe and view its version info. Thanks though. I can't belive this is so hard. It was supose to be a QnD utility Ron
Ronald Hahn, CNT - Computer Engineering Technologist New Technologies Analyst HahnTech Affiliated With Code Constructors Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Email: rhahn82@telus.net
Hello In your original post you mentioned Summary and title which are called metadata and are specific to audio/video files only. I thought you were talking about them -sorry!:->-. If you want to get the versions info of exe files only you should use
FileVersionInfoclass instead.Regards:rose:
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Hello In your original post you mentioned Summary and title which are called metadata and are specific to audio/video files only. I thought you were talking about them -sorry!:->-. If you want to get the versions info of exe files only you should use
FileVersionInfoclass instead.Regards:rose:
I believe that what you are looking for are called "Extended File Properties". I think you can get some useful info on Google. I used to have a VB6 program that (I didn't write it) that would extract the extend file properties. I looked, but couldn't find it. Google had many hits. If you find something good, please post the link. Best regards- Squeaker
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Hello In your original post you mentioned Summary and title which are called metadata and are specific to audio/video files only. I thought you were talking about them -sorry!:->-. If you want to get the versions info of exe files only you should use
FileVersionInfoclass instead.Regards:rose:
Thanks for the FileVersionInfo Tip. I think that will do the trick. It also returns the coments and other info I'm looking for. Right click on any file->proporties->summery and this class gives you access to all that. That was what i'm looking for. I woldn't have thought to look at FileVersionInfo FileInfo seemed like the right one Oh well Thanks again
Ronald Hahn, CNT - Computer Engineering Technologist New Technologies Analyst HahnTech Affiliated With Code Constructors Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Email: rhahn82@telus.net