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Version: v3

BootstrapperApplication Element

Description

Contains all the relevant information about the setup UI.

Windows Installer references

None

Parents

Bundle, Fragment

Inner Text

None

Children

Choice of elements (min: 0, max: unbounded)

Payload (min: 0, max: unbounded)
PayloadGroupRef (min: 0, max: unbounded)
Any Element (namespace='##other' processContents='Lax') Extensibility point in the WiX XML Schema. Schema extensions can register additional elements at this point in the schema.
- Payload
- PayloadGroupRef

Attributes

Name	Type	Description	Required
Id	String	The identifier of the BootstrapperApplication element. Only required if you want to reference this element using a BootstrapperApplicationRef element.
Name	String	The relative destination path and file name for the bootstrapper application DLL. The default is the source file name. Use this attribute to rename the bootstrapper application DLL or extract it into a subfolder. The use of '..' directories is not allowed.
SourceFile	String	The DLL with the bootstrapper application entry function.
Any Attribute (namespace='##other' processContents='lax') Extensibility point in the WiX XML Schema. Schema extensions can register additional attributes at this point in the schema.
UseUILanguages	YesNoType	When set to "yes", causes WixStdBA/Prereq BA to use the user's control panel language settings. Otherwise, the previous API (which uses locale instead of language) is used to maintain compatiblity with previous versions of WiX. On Vista and newer platforms, this value set to "yes" will search all specified user languages, including fallback languages, in order. (http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension)

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