Summary Information Stream Property Set

The following table shows the summary information stream property set, which includes the properties, their corresponding property IDs, PIDs, and types. For more information about how the installer uses these properties, see Summary Property Descriptions. For information about the Window Installer functions that are used to configure the summary information properties, see Using the Summary Information Stream.

Property name Property ID PID Type
Codepage PID_CODEPAGE 1 VT_I2
Title PID_TITLE 2 VT_LPSTR
Subject PID_SUBJECT 3 VT_LPSTR
Author PID_AUTHOR 4 VT_LPSTR
Keywords PID_KEYWORDS 5 VT_LPSTR
Comments PID_COMMENTS 6 VT_LPSTR
Template PID_TEMPLATE 7 VT_LPSTR
Last Saved By PID_LASTAUTHOR 8 VT_LPSTR
Revision Number PID_REVNUMBER 9 VT_LPSTR
Last Printed PID_LASTPRINTED 11 VT_FILETIME
Create Time/Date PID_CREATE_DTM 12 VT_FILETIME
Last Save Time/Date PID_LASTSAVE_DTM 13 VT_FILETIME
Page Count PID_PAGECOUNT 14 VT_I4
Word Count PID_WORDCOUNT 15 VT_I4
Character Count PID_CHARCOUNT 16 VT_I4
Creating Application PID_APPNAME 18 VT_LPSTR
Security PID_SECURITY 19 VT_I4

 

The installer currently maintains three storage formats for installation packages, transforms, and patch packages. The CLSID for the storage is set to the appropriate format class for the particular format, independent of the summary information for the storage.