IniFileSearch Element

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Description

Searches for file, directory or registry key and assigns to value of parent Property

Windows Installer references

IniLocator Table, Signature Table

Parents

ComplianceCheck, Property

Inner Text

None

Children

Choice of elements (min: 0, max: 1)

Attributes

Name	Type	Description	Required
Id	String	External key into the Signature table.	Yes
Field	Integer	The field in the .ini line. If field is Null or 0, the entire line is read.
Key	String	The key value within the section.	Yes
LongName	LongFileNameType	This attribute has been deprecated; please use the Name attribute instead.
Name	LongFileNameType	In prior versions of the WiX toolset, this attribute specified the short name. This attribute's value may now be either a short or long name. If a short name is specified, the ShortName attribute may not be specified. If a long name is specified, the LongName attribute may not be specified. Also, if this value is a long name, the ShortName attribute may be omitted to allow WiX to attempt to generate a unique short name. However, if you wish to manually specify the short name, then the ShortName attribute may be specified.	Yes
Section	String	The localizable .ini file section.	Yes
ShortName	ShortFileNameType	The short name of the file in 8.3 format. This attribute should only be set if the user wants to manually specify the short name.
Type	Enumeration	Must be file if last child is FileSearch element and must be directory if last child is DirectorySearch element. This attribute's value must be one of the following: directory A directory location. file A file location. This is the default value. raw A raw .ini value.

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