Updating file author attribute with vb

This allows me to read and edit custom properties without opening the file. This allows me to read and edit custom properties without opening the file. ' In this case we open the summary information storage propstg = propset. FMTID_Summary Information) ' Read the file author Msg Box("Author: " & propstg.

Close() BTW, there's a sample in the msi package that shows the use of the dll.

Bulk AD Users supports updating users via CSV file and it includes some other tools for updating users accounts such as the Edit In Excel and Bulk Modify features.

The Bulk AD Users application can make it easier for you to apply the update and it also produces an XML log file of the update which can be used to rollback changes.

For example, you might want to identify the user account you want to update in the CSV file by email address (mail attribute) rather than username.

As an alternative to this script, you might also to consider using the Bulk AD Users application (freeware) available on this website.

Rather than jumping in and solving both problems in one post, we'll start today with the problem of updating the attribute and then in the next post we'll look at some code we can use to process a folder of DWGs, opening, updating and saving each one.

Hi, I want to be able to read and write to the custom properties of any Office type file. In Windows explorer I can do this manually by right clicking on a file selecting 'properties' from the popup menu and clicking the custom tab. I want to be able to read and write to the custom properties of any Office type file. If you want to read properties from a file use the following code: Dim file As Storage Dim propset As Property Set Storage Dim propstg As Property Storage ' Open the file file = New Storage("c:\unpak\test.doc") ' Get the property set storage. Property Set Storage ' Properties are grouped in sets.

In Windows explorer I can do this manually by right clicking on a file selecting 'properties' from the popup menu and clicking the custom tab. This allows me to read and edit custom properties without opening the file. In Windows explorer I can do this manually by right clicking on a file selecting 'properties' from the popup menu and clicking the custom tab. First add the dll reference (It's listed as "Edanmo's OLE Storage Classes"). There're 3 predefined ' sets: Summary Information, Doc Summary Information and ' User Properties.

I created a primary function (Update Attributes In Database()) that takes a Database parameter - as this will facilitate the future calling of the code on a number of drawings - and added some code to prompt the user for the name of the block and attribute to modify, and of course the new value to which we will set the attribute.

Here's the C# code: I tested this code by adding a block called TEST to the modelspace and to the primary layout, both at the top-level and nested within other blocks.