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Code for Previous Blog Posts

Someone asked if I had a copy of the code I've been using in my blog so far. Well, I didn't as of 5pm today, so I went back and collected the code into 3 projects: propreader.exe <file> - Prints a list of all properties we know about the file propwriter.exe Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:55 PM by benkaras | 0 Comments
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Writing properties #9 - Summary

Coding to the Windows SDK Reading properties #7 - Summary Writing properties #1 - Simple beginnings Writing properties #2 - Filetype support? Writing properties #3 - Which properties are writable? Writing properties #4 - Which properties are writable? Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:00 PM by benkaras | 0 Comments

Writing properties #8 - Canonical Values

There's one last topic I want to touch on before I close this series: Canonical values. So far I've talked about how to determine when the property itself is writable. But once you decide to write a property, how do you figure out what type the value Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:38 PM by benkaras | 0 Comments

The deal with IPropertyStoreCapabilities

Have you ever felt this before? It's the day after you send your product to manufacturing . You step back, look at the big picture, and start to see minor flaws. A dread sinks in when you realize you just blogged about it too! That was Monday morning. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:47 AM by benkaras | 0 Comments

Writing properties #7 - IPropertyStoreCapabilities requires GPS_READWRITE

[Edit: 2006/11/13 - My original post got this topic entirely backwards. I've fixed the title and will provide details about this tomorrow. ] -Ben Karas Read More...
Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 12:00 PM by benkaras | 1 Comments

Writing properties #6 - GPS_READWRITE omits read-only data sources

You'll recall that there are multiple layers in the property system . In particular, the GPS_DEFAULT property system stack for files in the filesystem namespace looks like this: [ Application using GPS_DEFAULT ] [ Coercion Layer ] [ Shell Item Layer ]* Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:00 PM by benkaras | 1 Comments

Writing properties #5 - Property lists

So if a property handler doesn't enumerate which properties it supports writing , then how does the explorer pick which properties to show? Well, the shell namespace extension containing the item specifies the list of properties it wants to show in a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:00 PM by benkaras | 1 Comments

Writing properties #4 - Which properties are writeable?

I'm going to make a first stab at printing out a list of properties that are writable for a given file. I'll spoil the fun and let you know that my attempt today will not fully succeed. I'll explain later. For now, let's see some code! You'll recall I Read More...
Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 12:00 PM by benkaras | 0 Comments

Writing properties #1 - Simple beginnings

I'm going to be talking about writable properties over the next few days. I know that some of you are itching to try this out yourselves, so here is an overly simplistic program that will write a single property to a file. I have omitted a lot of diagnostic Read More...
Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 12:00 PM by benkaras | 2 Comments
 
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