Get PROPERTYKEY from Name

[unknown]

Hi! How i can convert a Property name to a PROPERTYKEY structure (FMTID/PID) by the name?

Example:
From Registry i take: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\InfoTip

than in my case, the result is: "propocTitle;Type;Size;FileVersion;FileTitle;ProgramDescription"

I have written a function to get sequentially property by property... so i have:
DocTitle
Type
Size
FileVersion
FileTitle
ProgramDescription

I want to translate the correspondent PROPERTYKEY structure (FMTID/PID) or otherwise translate this string to the correspondent replacement as Windows Explorer do.

Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Post by unknown
Hi! How i can convert a Property name to a PROPERTYKEY structure (FMTID/PID) by the name?

You can create a CLSID_PropertiesUI object and call its
IPropertyUI::ParsePropertyName method.

- Jim

[unknown]

Yes, i have resolved myself, in windows vista don't work.. but i have user the "propsys.dll" module and "PSGetPropertyKeyFromName" method for make it work :)

Thanks anyway :)



Jim Barry wrote:

Emulator Emu wrote:You can create a CLSID_PropertiesUI object and call
12-ott-09

Emulator Emu wrote:

You can create a CLSID_PropertiesUI object and call its
IPropertyUI::ParsePropertyName method.

- Jim

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Post by unknown
Yes, i have resolved myself, in windows vista don't work.. but i have user the "propsys.dll" module and "PSGetPropertyKeyFromName" method for make it work :)

You are right, Vista is buggy... its ParsePropertyName implementation
calls through to PSPropertyKeyFromString instead of
PSGetPropertyKeyFromName, so it fails to recognise anything other than
the "{fmtid} pid" format :(

- Jim