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Version: v3

Game Element (Gaming Extension)

Description
Registers a game in Game Explorer on Windows Vista and later. The executable must have an embedded Game Definition File. For more information about Game Explorer and GDFs, see The Windows Vista Game Explorer. This registration is accomplished via custom action.

On Windows XP, this element instead records the same information in the registry so that later upgrades to Windows Vista register the game in Game Explorer.
Windows Installer references
None
Parents
File
Inner Text
None
Children
Choice of elements (min: 0, max: unbounded)
Attributes
NameTypeDescriptionRequired
IdGuidThe game's instance ID.Yes
ExecutableFileStringIdentifier of the file that is the game's executable, if it isn't the parent file. 
GdfResourceFileStringIdentifier of the file that contains the game's GDF resource, if it doesn't exist in the parent file. 
See Also
Gaming Schema