Using ASP.net to replace index services?

[darrel]

I'm looking at ASP.net ability to read files and file properties:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/chapters/ASPNET2/ch02.2.shtml

I was wondering if it is at all possible to read some of the properties of
MS Office documents...such as TITLE, or, even better, any custom properties
that would have been added to the document?

Right now, we use indexservices to read all of these and then we query that
to pull them up with classic ASP. But we're not huge fans of indexservices.
We're eventually going to migrate to sharepoint...which will be a big
improvement.

For now, just reading the filenames will suffice, but if there were some
known ways to read at least the TITLE property, it'd help...

-Darrel

 

[John Timney \(ASP.NET MVP\)]

try reading this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/odc_wdcustprop.asp

You'll likely need an instance of office on your webserver, but it might
work for you...

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Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director