FileVersionInfo

**trisuglow** · Jul 24th, 2003, 02:49 AM

If you right-click a MSWord .doc file in Windows Explorer and go to Properties\Summary you get to see all kinds of information (Author's Name, Company, Title, etc.).

When I do the same on one of the files that my application saves I see the same fields.

How do I get my application to put data into these?

I've looked at FileVersionInfo, but this only provides read methods, not writes.

**Pirate** · Jul 24th, 2003, 07:48 AM

Search this forum for thread by Edneeis . It sounds tough one but it may give you a clue .

**trisuglow** · Jul 25th, 2003, 08:49 AM

Thanks Pirate, I've done that.

It looks like the answer is that I must use DSOleFile.dll and run my application on Win2000 using NTFS. Otherwise I don't think I can write properties to non-OLE documents.

Shame.

**Edneeis** · Jul 25th, 2003, 09:37 AM

Well you definately have to target an NTFS system for any files other than Doc or Word files, because that info is only kept on NTFS systems (in a seperate stream) for other files.

**PeteD** · Jul 25th, 2003, 09:52 AM

Have a look in your project's AssemblyInfo.vb file

**Edneeis** · Jul 25th, 2003, 10:30 AM

I don't think that is the Summary Info he means:

**PeteD** · Jul 25th, 2003, 10:37 AM

I have seen these fields in a deployment project. Perhaps that is what fills the fields in for the deployed files?????

**Edneeis** · Jul 25th, 2003, 11:10 AM

But how can you edit them afterwards. Through the OS you can just right click the file and edit them whenever but how can you do that through code?

**Pirate** · Jul 25th, 2003, 11:20 AM

Anyone of you guys know if this involves any secuirty issues . They make everything hard to work with . I'm much concerned since I'll get into this after I finish my current proj

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