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Qualified components are a method of indirection and can be used to group components with parallel functionality into categories.
To return the full path and install a qualified component, call MsiProvideQualifiedComponent or MsiProvideQualifiedComponentEx.
To enumerate all of the qualified component qualifiers and descriptive strings, call MsiEnumComponentQualifiers.
To group components together into a qualified-component category
The following example illustrates how the "FAX Templates" category of qualified components are authored into the Component, Feature, and PublishComponent tables.
ComponentId | Qualifier | AppData | Feature_ | Component_ |
---|---|---|---|---|
{FAX Template Category GUID} | 1033 | US English template | FAXTemplate | FAXTemplateENU |
1041 | Japanese template | FAXTemplate | FAXTemplateJPN | |
1054 | Thai template | FAXTemplate | FAXTemplateTHA | |
1031 | German template | FAXTemplate | FAXTemplateDEU |
Component table (partial table)
Component | ComponentId |
---|---|
FAXTemplateENU | {FAX Template (US English) component GUID} |
FAXTemplateJPN | {FAX Template (Japanese) component GUID} |
FAXTemplateTHA | {FAX Template (Thai) component GUID} |
FAXTemplateDEU | {FAX Template (German) component GUID} |
Feature table (partial table)
Feature |
---|
FAXTemplate |
FAXTemplate |
FAXTemplate |
FAXTemplate |
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