file Properties

Aleksandar Ilioski

is there any way to write properties for some file in c#??
you know, right click on the file in windows exporer, and there is summary tab from where you can access file properties like: Autor, Title, Comments....
i want to do that from c#.. write and read file properties..
i try google.. but havent find right answer..

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Aleksandar Ilioski16y ago
thank You very much for your replay, but..
I read the information at the download link.. and as i saw, it works only with office files: word, excel, poperPoint... in my aplication a create file (bynary file) using serialzation, and i store Custom Object Information in it.. so i want to access to that custom file atributes.. i also have own extension for my files.. if that make some diferents..

Baimey Rajesh16y ago

This is in C#

string filename ="c:\test\test.doc";
 DSOFile.OleDocumentProperties dso = New DSOFile.OleDocumentProperties();
 dso.Open(filename.Trim, True,DSOFile.dsoFileOpenOptions.dsoOptionOpenReadOnlyIfNoWriteAccess);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.Author);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.ByteCount);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.CharacterCount);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.CharacterCountWithSpaces);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.Comments);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.Company);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.DateCreated);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.DateLastSaved);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.LastSavedBy);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.LineCount);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.PageCount);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.ParagraphCount);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.RevisionNumber);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.Subject);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.Title);
 Console.WriteLine(dso.SummaryProperties.WordCount);

This must work.
To use this code, you have add reference of DSO OleDocument Properties Reader 2.0 library which can be downloaded free - DSO OleDocument Properties Reader 2.0