SolidWorks API

directly

first

Get "dsofile.dll" frim

which gives you access document properties through the OS, without having to open the file. The bad news are:

1) you won't be able to access configuration-specific properties 2) some earlier messages on this group say it doesn't work with Win XP. Didn't try... Philippe Guglielmetti -

Works with my XP Pro. Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell

Works here too XP Pro

Corey

Thanks a lot... I'll have a go at it, as soon as possible... :-D

Any idea why?

...snip

Yup : they are stored in different places. SW Files use the MS "OLE Structured storage" format, which has one specific location for file properties, then a structure of file-specific data. SW files have one block for each config, and config properties are stored in it, out of the reach of dsofile.dll... I used

to investigate a bit on this. Philippe Guglielmetti -

Were there copyrights on the dsofile.dll?

I wonder what it would take to edit it to be config specific.

Corey