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Martin Carpella
Martin Carpella

Reputation: 12593

COM-Interface for accessing file information (title, subject, author)?

On NTFS, any file can have extended file information based on an Alternate Data Stream. Explorer displays this as a tab in the file properties dialog. I am quite sure there is a COM-Interface for reading/modifying this information, but I seem to be unable to come up with the right terms for my search.

Can anyone give me a short pointer? Thanks in advance!

Best regards, Martin

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 254

Answers (1)

jdigital
jdigital

Reputation: 12276

I don't think that alternate data streams are used for this. It's more likely based on what Microsoft calls Structured Storage (which used to be called compound file binary format).

Upvotes: 1

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