Accessing File Property - "Comment"

[Guest]

I need to Set & Get the "Comment" property of files. I would like to know
what classes handle these in VB.NET.

The VBA code is sen at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;212724

To set the comment manually, we have to right click a file in windows
explorer, click on "Properties" and then select the "Summary" Tab. Making
sure the view is "Simple" there will be a text box to enter the comments.
Once this is set, we can add the comment filed to show in windows explorer by
right clicking and adding the property.

I am using Windows XP Professional.

Thanks.

 

[Samuel R. Neff]

Dsofile.dll lets you edit Office document properties without Office in
Visual Basic .NET 2003 and in Visual Basic .NET 2002

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;224351

afaik there is no pure managed code solution for this readily
available.

HTH,

Sam

I need to Set & Get the "Comment" property of files. I would like to know
what classes handle these in VB.NET.

The VBA code is sen at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;212724

To set the comment manually, we have to right click a file in windows
explorer, click on "Properties" and then select the "Summary" Tab. Making
sure the view is "Simple" there will be a text box to enter the comments.
Once this is set, we can add the comment filed to show in windows explorer by
right clicking and adding the property.

I am using Windows XP Professional.

Thanks.

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I need to Set & Get the "Comment" property of files. I would like to know
what classes handle these in VB.NET.

OLE Structured Storage Classes
<URL:http://www.mvps.org/emorcillo/dotnet/grl/>

 

[Guest]

Thanks. Yes - that works but only for Microsoft Documents. It does not work
for PDFs and GIFs (I tested only these two) - but you can actually set the
comments through Windows Explorer. It seems to work for only OLE compound
files - So I gues I am missing something.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Thanks. Yes - that works but only for Microsoft Documents. It does not
work
for PDFs and GIFs (I tested only these two) - but you can actually set the
comments through Windows Explorer. It seems to work for only OLE compound
files - So I gues I am missing something.

I fear you have to dig into NTFS steams to do that:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnfiles/html/ntfs5.asp>