The Great Flying Tortoise

You can, of course, wait for Windows Vista to ship before checking out the property system. But if you are curious or bored, here are a few other things you might do: Download the Windows Vista Platform SDK: The most recent Platform SDK . The SDK contains Read More...

So what's this PROPERTYKEY that the property system uses? Where do I get them? Well, property keys identify the particular property you are interested in. You can find a bunch of system-provided definitions in the Windows Vista Platform SDK in propkey.h. Read More...

Reading properties is rather simple. First, bind to the item. SHCreateItemFromIDList and SHCreateItemFromParsingName are appropriate for this. Then read your properties. Be sure to clean up after yourself. IShellItem2 *psi; if (SUCCEEDED(SHCreateItemFromParsingName(L"c:\tortoise.doc", Read More...

The property system is a new set of APIs for Microsoft Windows Vista that provides a general way to access metadata about files and items accessible through the shell namespace. This means you can ask for the dimensions of an image, or the size of a file, Read More...