Setting the Title property in a Windows File ...

13 Jun 2006 2:00 AM

scott

I hope I am just missing something easy, and that someone can point me in
the right direction, but I cannot seem to find out how to change the title
property of any random file using VB.NET.

For example, in Notepad, with a saved text file, one can right click on the
file and go to properties, and then go to the third tab [called Summary];
here there is a property called Title, and it is this that i wish to change,
and have found ways to get close to it, but not quite.

I know I can use this command to get ahold of some data from a file:

My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo Method

But in the documentation, as well as when running the code, it doesn't say
anything about being able to get or set or see the Title property.

Granted, my main goal in all of this is to be able to enable me to write a
program so that my MP3 player will have more descriptive titles, but even if
that weren't the case, I still would like to know why I'm missing the extra
part of the data for the file and can't change it.

Any help would be great. Thanks so much for your time!

In peace.

13 Jun 2006 5:36 AM

GhostInAK

Hello Scott,

On 2k and XP NTFS formatted systems the "Title" attribute (as well as all
other data on the Summary tab) is stored in an Alternate data stream. (See
the MSDN doco). The reason the .NET framework doesnt expose this data (I'm
assuming) is that the .NET framework doesn't know anything about Alternate
data streams (as it's NTFS-specific).

-Boo

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> I hope I am just missing something easy, and that someone can point me
> in the right direction, but I cannot seem to find out how to change
> the title property of any random file using VB.NET.
>
> For example, in Notepad, with a saved text file, one can right click
> on the file and go to properties, and then go to the third tab [called
> Summary]; here there is a property called Title, and it is this that i
> wish to change, and have found ways to get close to it, but not quite.
>
> I know I can use this command to get ahold of some data from a file:
>
> My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo Method
>
> But in the documentation, as well as when running the code, it doesn't
> say anything about being able to get or set or see the Title property.
>
> Granted, my main goal in all of this is to be able to enable me to
> write a program so that my MP3 player will have more descriptive
> titles, but even if that weren't the case, I still would like to know
> why I'm missing the extra part of the data for the file and can't
> change it.
>
> Any help would be great. Thanks so much for your time!
>
> In peace.
>

13 Jun 2006 6:02 AM

R. MacDonald

Hello, Scott,

But (further to what Ghost said), if you still want to try to use these
properties, you will need to use DSOFile.dll. For more information see:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224351

but to avoid problems, also take a look at:

http://www.codecomments.com/archive293-2006-2-813451.html

Cheers,
Randy

scott wrote:
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> I hope I am just missing something easy, and that someone can point me in
> the right direction, but I cannot seem to find out how to change the title
> property of any random file using VB.NET.
>
>
>
> For example, in Notepad, with a saved text file, one can right click on the
> file and go to properties, and then go to the third tab [called Summary];
> here there is a property called Title, and it is this that i wish to change,
> and have found ways to get close to it, but not quite.
>
>
>
> I know I can use this command to get ahold of some data from a file:
>
> My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo Method
>
>
>
> But in the documentation, as well as when running the code, it doesn't say
> anything about being able to get or set or see the Title property.
>
>
>
>
>
> Granted, my main goal in all of this is to be able to enable me to write a
> program so that my MP3 player will have more descriptive titles, but even if
> that weren't the case, I still would like to know why I'm missing the extra
> part of the data for the file and can't change it.
>
>
>
>
>
> Any help would be great. Thanks so much for your time!
>
>
>
> In peace.
>
>

13 Jun 2006 5:41 PM

scott

Thank you both for answering... perhaps I can find a direction to go from
there.
scott.

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"R. MacDonald" <sci***@NO-SP-AMcips.ca> wrote in message
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> Hello, Scott,
>
> But (further to what Ghost said), if you still want to try to use these
> properties, you will need to use DSOFile.dll. For more information see:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224351
>
> but to avoid problems, also take a look at:
>
> http://www.codecomments.com/archive293-2006-2-813451.html
>
> Cheers,
> Randy
>
>
> scott wrote:
>> I hope I am just missing something easy, and that someone can point me in
>> the right direction, but I cannot seem to find out how to change the
>> title property of any random file using VB.NET.
>>
>>
>>
>> For example, in Notepad, with a saved text file, one can right click on
>> the file and go to properties, and then go to the third tab [called
>> Summary]; here there is a property called Title, and it is this that i
>> wish to change, and have found ways to get close to it, but not quite.
>>
>>
>>
>> I know I can use this command to get ahold of some data from a file:
>>
>> My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFileInfo Method
>>
>>
>>
>> But in the documentation, as well as when running the code, it doesn't
>> say anything about being able to get or set or see the Title property.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Granted, my main goal in all of this is to be able to enable me to write
>> a program so that my MP3 player will have more descriptive titles, but
>> even if that weren't the case, I still would like to know why I'm missing
>> the extra part of the data for the file and can't change it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help would be great. Thanks so much for your time!
>>
>>
>>
>> In peace.
>>