How to access the file summary

[karenmierkalns]

Does anyone know how to access the file summary for a particular file? I am aware of the function GetAttr, which retrieves the attributes such as read-only, normal, etc. However, I would like to take that a step further and actually get into the file summary tab.

I found the following code for .net, but cannot get it to work for vb 6 (it doesn't recognize the class). I don't know if there is a reference I can add.

Dim obFileVersionInfo As FileVersionInfo
obFileVersionInfo = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo("c:\ftplogin.txt&quot

Does anyone know how to access file summary?

Thanks a lot. - Karen

 

[strongm]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q224351

 

[karenmierkalns]

Great - I tried that out. However what I am specifically looking for is the file summary for audio files. I may be able to go around it - but I'd like to confirm that there is no way to access the actual file summary for audio files.

Thanks again. - Karen

 

[strongm]

Which audio files? dsofile should work on any OLE Structured Storage file and, theoretically, on any file on NTFS under W2000/XP. It is not limited to Office documents.

 

[karenmierkalns]

Well, specifically I need the audio properties, such as duration. I can get the duration if I actually open the file with the media player control, but I don't want to have to do that. I simply want to access the properties where all I do is specify a file path. Using the dsofile I can't get the audio properties - all I get are the general/common properties.

I did find some code that is very complicated, and is specifically for MP3 files and nothing else. I don't want to use that.

Thanks again. - Karen