newbie question (file info)

[skottyd]

Hello, first post:

What nomenclature, name spaces, .NET classes, ect... will allow me to access the detail fields of a windows directory, like Album, Artist, file type, year, ect....

 

[Administrator]

Hello,

Welcome to the VB.NET Forums. Please post more informative subject lines so we know what your content is going to be about vs. "newbie question."

Take a look at the System.IO namespace.

 

[skottyd]

Sorry! Wasn't quite sure what topic this question came under..

 

[JohnH]

What you refer to is extended info about media files (not directories) called ID3 tags. This is not attributes of the file itself (file system), but of the content (embedded data). There are different versions in different media files that are very different to read. Here is one example code: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/tagreader.asp
There are no native IO methods in .Net for this, you have to use common data operations according to the individual media file and tag specifications to extract the info.

 

[skottyd]

Thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for.