Retrieving "Created By" and "Modified By" properties of a file

[EYIII]

Is it possible to retrieve the "created by" identity and "modified by"
identity for a file (e.g. word doc, .pdf, report, etc) using .NET?

[R. MacDonald]

Hello, EYIII,

Do you mean the extended file properties available under NTFS? If so, I
think you will need to use an OLE component for this. See posting:

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

for more information about this.

Cheers,
Randy
EYIII wrote:

Is it possible to retrieve the "created by" identity and "modified by"
identity for a file (e.g. word doc, .pdf, report, etc) using .NET?

[EYIII]

Thanks for your reply. We currently have the DSOfile.dll. However, it only
works with Microsoft Office documents. Is there similar functionality for
retrieving it from non-office documents?

"EYIII" wrote:

Is it possible to retrieve the "created by" identity and "modified by"
identity for a file (e.g. word doc, .pdf, report, etc) using .NET?

[R. MacDonald]

Hello, EYIII,

As I understand it, the properties must first be created before they can
be accessed. DSOFile is supposed to be able to do the creation, but
there is some bug that gets in the way.

There is a posting by "jeolmeun" providing more details and a
workaround, but I still haven't had a chance to try it out. See:

http://www.codecomments.com/message813451.html

for additional details.

By the way. I would really appreciate hearing about your experience
with using this workaround, since (eventually) I will have to do this too.

Cheers,
Randy
EYIII wrote:

Thanks for your reply. We currently have the DSOfile.dll. However, it only
works with Microsoft Office documents. Is there similar functionality for
retrieving it from non-office documents?

"EYIII" wrote:

Is it possible to retrieve the "created by" identity and "modified by"
identity for a file (e.g. word doc, .pdf, report, etc) using .NET?