WixVariable Element

Windows Installer XML

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WixVariable Element

Description
This element exposes advanced WiX functionality. Use this element to declare WiX variables from directly within your authoring. WiX variables are not resolved until the final msi/msm/pcp file is actually generated. WiX variables do not persist into the msi/msm/pcp file, so they cannot be used when an MSI file is being installed; it's a WiX-only concept.
Windows Installer references
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Parents
Fragment, Module, Product
Inner Text
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Children
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Attributes
Name Type Description Required
Id String The name of the variable. Yes
Overridable YesNoType Set this value to 'yes' in order to make the variable's value overridable either by another WixVariable entry or via the command-line option -d<name>=<value> for light.exe. If the same variable is declared overridable in multiple places it will cause an error (since WiX won't know which value is correct). The default value is 'no'.  
Value String The value of the variable. The value cannot be an empty string because that would make it possible to accidentally set a column to null. Yes
See Also
Wix Schema
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