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fkish
11-11-2005, 12:55 PM
Does anyone know how to automate updating of file properties, such as comments, on the summary tab (that is the one you would get to by right clicking on a file>Properties...>Summary tab)

For the Version tab you can do this in Visual Builder when you compile VB\C++\.Net projects...so I would like to do something similar to the Comments section on the Summary Tab for other types of files (ini, txt, mdb, etc).

I have search around but most utilities I have found just update the attributes on the General tab (dates, read only, etc).

Perhaps there is a command line utility...or something in Visual Builder I can't find.

Maybe I'm just missing something??

Thanks for any suggestions,
Frank

kinook
11-11-2005, 08:43 PM
Download and install DsoFile v1.4 from http://download.microsoft.com/download/office97dev/utility/2/win98/en-us/dsofile.exe

Then see the attached sample (requires VBP 6+) for using from VBP to update summary properties for a file.

Note that this doesn't seem to work with newer (2.0) or older (1.1, 1.2?) versions of DsoFile.