file header

[Mahmood Ilyas]

hi all. how to get information hidden in the header of a file or how to get information about the signature (name, version, creation date, modified date etc)of a file muhammad mahmood ilyas

[Lost User]

Depends on the file type. For a description of file types you might check this link. Basically you craete a BinaryReader. You can then read the complete header with ReadBytes(count) and convert them yourself, or you can read them information by information, like ReadInt, ReadBoolean etc. regards

[rah_sin]

u can try System.IO.FileInfo fl = new System.IO.FileInfo("full path of file"); and from this fl object u can check name, version, creation date, modified date etc of that file rahul