i need t return the author of a document file in vb

[JohnDoumet]

i need t return the author of a document file in vb

what i already did is:

Try
Dim sFileSize As String
Dim location As String
Dim lastTime As String
Dim lastModified As String
Dim name As String
Dim finalString As String

Dim FI As System.IO.FileInfo = New System.IO.FileInfo("C:\Users\Jean\Desktop\1.m4a")
name = "File name: " + FI.Name.ToString
sFileSize = "file length: " + FI.Length.ToString
location = "File location: " + FI.Directory.ToString
lastTime = "This file was last accessed on: " + FI.LastAccessTime.ToString
lastModified = "This file was last modified on: " + FI.LastWriteTime.ToString


finalString = name & vbCrLf & sFileSize & vbCrLf & location & vbCrLf & lastTime & vbCrLf & lastModified



MsgBox(finalString)

Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try


i need to get the author

[jmcilhinney]

You can't get that information using purely managed code. You need a bit of COM.

http://www.developerfusion.com/code/...ies-of-a-file/

[JohnDoumet]

i already used that ... but how do i print the info that i got?

[jmcilhinney]

Printing has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. You get the author as a String, so you use it like any other String. If you want to know how to print text then that's a completely separate topic. If you don't actually mean "print" but rather just "display" then you would do it exactly as you're doing for the other info that you're already displaying. If you mean something else then you're going to spell it out because we won't guess.