Updating Summary Information for an Upgrade

Windows Installer

Updating Summary Information for an Upgrade

The package code of the upgrade package must be changed from that of the original product. The package code is stored in the Revision Number Summary Property. For details, see Package Codes. Use Msiinfo.exe, or another editor, to change the summary information of MNP2001.msi as described in Adding Summary Information.

Summary information property Data Notes
Template

(Platform and Language)

;1033 Platform and language used by the database. If the platform specification is missing in the Template Summary property value, the installer assumes the Intel architecture. The ProductLanguage property from the database is typically used for this summary property. The sample's Language ID indicates that the package uses U.S. English.
Revision Number

(Package Code)

{A0EC5348-1D02-4FF6-93F5-61BD7AC1772E} This is the package code GUID that uniquely identifies the sample package. If you reproduce this sample, use a utility such as GUIDGEN to generate a different GUID for your package. The results of GUIDGEN contain lowercase characters, note that you must change all lowercase characters to uppercase for a valid package code.
Page Count

(Minimum Installer Version)

200 For a minimum Windows Installer version 2.0, this property should be set to the integer 200.
Word Count

(Type of Source)

0 The global source type for the package is long file names and uncompressed. For more information, see Compressed and Uncompressed Sources and the description of the Attributes column of the File table.
Title Installation Database Informs users that this database is for an installation rather than a transform or a patch.
Subject MNP2001 File browsers can display this as the product to be installed with this database.
Keywords Installer, MSI, Database File browsers that are capable of keyword searching can search for these words.
Author Microsoft Corporation Name of the product's manufacturer.
Comments This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Notepad. Informs users about the purpose of this database.
Creating Application Orca Application used to create the installation database. The sample specifies the Orca database editor as an example.
Security 0 The sample database is unrestricted read-write.

 

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