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PatchFamily Element

From Windows Installer XML

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PatchFamily Element

Description
Collection of items that should be kept from the differences between two products.
Windows Installer references
None
Parents
Fragment, Patch
Inner Text
None
Children
Sequence (min: 1, max: 1)
  1. Choice of elements (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • BinaryRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • ComponentRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • CustomActionRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • DirectoryRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • FeatureRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • IconRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • PropertyRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • UIRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
    • Any Element (namespace='##other' processContents='Lax') Extensibility point in the WiX XML Schema. Schema extensions can register additional elements at this point in the schema.
Attributes
Name Type Description Required
Id String Identifier which indicates a sequence family to which this patch belongs. Yes
ProductCode Guid Specifies the ProductCode of the product that this family applies to.  
Supersede YesNoType Set this value to 'yes' to indicate that this patch will supersede all previous patches in this patch family. The default value is 'no'.  
Version String Used to populate the sequence column of the MsiPatchSequence table in the final MSP file. Specified in x.x.x.x format. See documentation for Sequence column of MsiPatchSequence table in MSI SDK. Yes
See Also
Wix Schema
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