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Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005

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> The retrieving and editing this information without automation has
> typically* been done via the OLE Compound document interfaces -
> IPropertyStorage and IPropertySetStorage.
> for example:
> "How To Read Compound Document Properties Directly with VC++"
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q186898/
> 
> Another way of doing this ...
> "The Dsofile.dll files lets you edit Office document properties when
> you do not have Office installed"
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q224351/
> 
> A little research online with those intefaces as keywords should
> produce several VB.Net examples (or more likely C# solutions which you
> can convert or employ directly within your VB.Net application.)
> 
> hth
> 
> -ralph
> [* there are also several schemes to mine this 'meta-information'
> directly from the binary file, but such 'hacks' are usually very
> fragile and always version dependent. Files stored in the new XML
> formats (eg. docx) can also be mined as you might any ASCII file.]

Or rather, the XML and other data in DOCX files can be mined once you extract 
them from the ZIP container.  All of the Office *.*X files are ZIP files.

I'm guesing that DSOFile doesn't know what to do with these.  Is that 
correct?

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Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 AlJones <al@mywebhome.net> - 2011-04-24 12:24 -0500
  Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-04-24 13:42 -0500
    Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-04-24 13:45 -0500
    Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 AlJones <al@mywebhome.net> - 2011-04-24 14:17 -0500
      Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-04-24 15:33 -0500
      Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-04-24 23:22 -0400
    Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 Steve Rindsberg <steve@rdpslides.com> - 2011-04-25 15:57 -0400
      Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-04-25 16:48 -0400
        Re: Trying to get author / title of a DOC file in VB2005 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-04-25 16:49 -0400

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