Summary Information Stream Property Set (Windows)

Summary Information Stream Property...

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.

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Build date: 6/25/2009