Windows Explorer has up to 45 columns to display various file properties or perhaps better called file specific meta-data items, although only 4 columns are usually displayed be default.

I want to write VB.NET code that will examine a file againts all its meta-data  items (whether these are covered by the set of 45 items recognised in Windows Explorer or not) and where an item has content, to list it. Further I would like to select files having a particular meta-data attibute and move them into a separate folder - i.e. to sort files on the usually hidden meta-data items.

I only have Visual Studio 2003, and a Windows XP Pro sp2 OS. So some of the "magic" in VISTA is not accessible to me.

Help please...