Report file properties dialog on MS Vista

Post Author: DCox
CA Forum: General
My company runs and distributes CR v11.x as part of our application currently running on XP. We are migrating our application to Vista. Our application, written in PowerBuilder v10.5, reads some of the user-defined file properties of the report (.rpt) file via the OLE API. On XP, the specific properties I need to see are on the Summary tab of the properties dialog you get by right-clicking the .rpt file in the XP Windows Explorer.
Our application uses the Title, Subject Keywords and Comments properties in XP to build a Tree of available reports in our application. These properties are not displayed in Vista's property dialog for CR report files built on XP and copied to Vista. Is there a version of CR that will display these properties? Our application retrieves these properties on Vista but they are not visible in the Vista properties dialog.
Also, is there information about the CR API (for Vista) that will show me how to access the MS OLEDocumentProperties SummaryProperties and CustomProperties?
Any assistance is appreciated.

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