Why unity crashes when using shell32 in unity3d?

Question

I'm using shell 32 to get some file descriptions. It works perfect in Visual Studio 2010, but when it comes inside unity3d it crashes.

The code is:

using Shell32;

ShellClass shell = new ShellClass();
Folder objFolder = shell.NameSpace(path);

string fileTitle = objFolder.GetDetailsOf(objFolder.Items().item(0),21); //Crash on this line

I appreciate your help.

Answer 1

Using Shell32 isn't portable.

Have you tried using the .net equivalents?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesysteminfo.aspx

Answer 2

Yes, use the System.IO; namespace

there you have multiple interesting methods like

File.Exists(...) Directory.Exists( ...) Path.GetDirectoryName(...) Path.Combine(path, filename) Path.GetFileNameOnly(...)

( note: the method I wrote are not exactly correctly named, but you get the picture) :)

Cheers T.