ProgId Element

Description

ProgId registration for parent Component. If ProgId has an associated Class, it must be a child of that element.

Windows Installer references

ProgId Table, Class Table, Registry Table, Icon Table

Parents

Class, Component, Include, ProgId

Inner Text

None

Children

Sequence (min: 1, max: 1)

ProgId (min: 0, max: 1): Version-independent ProgId must be child element of actual ProgId. Nesting further ProgId elements within the Version-independent ProgId is disallowed.
Extension (min: 0, max: unbounded): extensions that refer to this ProgId

Attributes

Name	Type	Description	Required
Id	String	ProgId or version-independent ProgId.	Yes
Advertise	YesNoType	If yes, the ProgId is set using the ProgId table; if no, the ProgId is set using the Registry table. If the ProgId is a child of a Class element, the ProgId's Advertise attribute value must match the Class Advertise value.
Description	String	Optional localizable description of the ProgId.
Icon	String	Reference to Icon element
IconIndex	Integer	The zero-based index of the icon associated with this ProgId. Do not specify this attribute for a version-independent ProgId.
NoOpen	String	Specifies that the associated ProgId should not be opened by users. The value is presented as a warning to users. An empty string is also valid for this attribute. See the MSDN documentation for more information.

See Also

Wix Schema