Accessing a file's properties from a VC++ application

[jopett]

I am developing a small windows XP application that iterates over a set of files in a folder and extracts information from the files properties (right-click, select properties and then the summary tab) like title, summary etc. The article Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 186898 shows how to do this for compund docuemnts like Word documents and so on, using IPropertyStorage. However, In my application, I access non-compound documents (jpeg-files mostly). They can also have attributes like the office files, but IPropertyStorage doesn't seem to be the right choice for finding the information. Does anyone have any excpreience with this? Regards // Jonas Pettersson Regards // Jonas

[David Crow]

It does work for JPG files, assuming they have information to show. You will, however, need to use StgOpenStorageEx() instead.

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