How to read ADP custom properties

This was really a nutshell. In MDB this is very easy – using currentdb() you get access to all available properties. There is no currentdb in ADP, there is a CurrentProject, but you can get only properties you add yourself, using CurrentProject.Properties. Also you have to start Access in order to read these properties – not a good idea for such a small application like VersionCheck.

Fortunately Google Groups knows everything! I found a following tread, discussing this issue. Sylvain Lafontaine (MVP) points to article Tales from the Script, which brings some light on this problem. Furthermore – there is an article in MS KB “Dsofile.dll lets you edit Office document properties without Office in Visual Basic .NET 2003 and in Visual Basic .NET 2002”, which shows samples using Dsofile.dll.

Currently I am improving our VersionCheck, so it can also work with ADP files, and let you know on results.