Programmatically get version number of creating application

[Rewly]

Is there a way to programmatically learn what version of Word/Excel/whatever
(even non-MS products) was used to create a given document? I'd like my
program (C#) to be able to go through a database of thousands of files and
get this information from each--it must be contained somewhere in the
metadata, right? Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Is there a way to programmatically learn what version of Word/Excel/whatever
(even non-MS products) was used to create a given document? I'd like my
program (C#) to be able to go through a database of thousands of files and
get this information from each--it must be contained somewhere in the
metadata, right? Thanks for any help you can provide.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DSOFile.htm. It is specific to OLE
container files, which includes MS Office formats up to but _not_ including
Office 2007. I don't think it will work with many other programs' files.