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

[davidrobin]

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

[Lunatic3]

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

[davidrobin]

Thanks I'll look into it.

[Denaes]

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)?