Writing properties #3 - Which properties are writable?

re: Writing properties #3 - Which properties are writable?

nikos — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:42:24 GMT

i'm glad i found these posts of yours, now i know why file comments don't work in vista as they did in xp!

clearly m$ have had a complete rethink but surely they could maintain backward compatibility... in the past things were done through IPropertySetStorage. I'm interested to see if they're going to change anything till vista makes it public

re: Writing properties #3 - Which properties are writable?

benkaras — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:24:10 GMT

Many thanks to Clark who noticed that I was missing a ! in this statement:

fWritable = !(flags & PDTF_ISINNATE);

That'll teach me to write entries in a rush.

The reasoning behind the change from XP behavior is a complicated topic. I'd like to research it more and discuss it later. In short, there were compelling reasons why we made the change, but you could have guessed I'd say that much :)

The deal with IPropertyStoreCapabilities

The Great Flying Tortoise — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:56:32 GMT

Have you ever felt this before? It's the day after you send your product to manufacturing . You step