Does VB have a way of accessing the summary tab of the files properties

I can access all the attributes through Shell32 or System.IO.Files, whichever is quicker or more efficient I'm not sure.

But I don't need to access the attributes, I'm trying to get ahold of the text fields on the Summary tab page.

You know, Name, Keywords, Comments, etc.

I want to be able to read a word out of the keywords, or even sort them based on their Keyword.

Someone sent me a .dll for vb6 (which I'm about to look into), and told me to use the Shell.Application.

In .Net I don't see a Shell Application, only Shell32, which has TONS on folders and everything else, but I couldn't find anything on this.

I'll try out the dll, but isn't there a way to do it IN VB.net? I mean, you should have full access to the windows environment.

The only thing I'm left to thinking is API. I looked at AllAPIs.net and nothing jumped out at me for this situation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Take a look at this:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=239232

Thanks I'll look into it.

Wow, I'm having the same problem.

.Net is supposed to be like the ultimate windows programing language, giving full and easier access to the OS, but for the life of me, I can't figure it out.

There isn't a Shell in .net, only in vb6. Theres a shell.dll in the system directory, but I think I got an error loading that one.

To load an OLE (MS Office), there seems to be multiple ways to go about things, from automation to a .dll file.

Unfortunately I'm using all sorts of file types. I KNOW there must be a way.

Oh, that .dll file... DSOFile.dll or whatever it is, its for OLE only. It randomly worked with Quattro Pro (Corel Suit), but when I tried it with Wordperfect or other filetypes, I got a "File is not OLE" error.

I'll bring news this way if I find anything about this... so far the only solution I've seen is in Delphi... I don't know why, and I have no clue.

This seems like something basic and from my searching, is a fairly common question that pops up, shouldn't there be a .net addon or just a .dll to download for this (that works on ALL files, not just OLE)?