How to Identify a unique file

[LeoVBNET]

Hello.
I'm working on new project. It is a Movies/Series Organizer. The user has any amount of movies, series and covers files in any folders. So I need some how to identify any file from another. I would like to be able to put some ID code inside the file (like in attribute or so), in order to recognize that "unique" file.

I came with the idea of put a code at the end of the file name (ex. "Star Wars Episode IV.#&33.avi") but I'm not glad with it.

Someone has a better idea?

[Rabbit]

You could store it in the extended file properties.

[LeoVBNET]

Thanks Rabbit, but you have any idea on how it could be done? (shell32 or so?)

[Rabbit]

I've only read the extended file properties and you can do that with the Folder object's GetDetailsOf method. Here is a link to Microsoft's documentation on that.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx.

I'm sure if you poke around the manual you'll find the function that lets you set it. I don't know it off the top of my head because I've never used it. But it reasons to stand that if you can get them, you can also set them.

[LeoVBNET]

Finding information on the web I got the DSOFile assembly. It allows me to read and write extended file properties such as Comments, Category, Author, etc.
What I do is to put an ID inside on one of this properties, and the same time this ID is the "Key" of a Hashtable Collection where I save all the information about that file.
This assembly allows me to work with files even when these files are being used by another app.
Anyway, I gonna look over about GetDetailsOf method you mencioned.