SoftwareInfo element

Important

Device metadata is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Windows. For information about the replacement for this functionality, see Driver Package Container Metadata.

The SoftwareInfo element is the parent element of the SoftwareInfo schema.

Usage

<SoftwareInfo>
  child elements
</SoftwareInfo>

Attributes

There are no attributes.

Child elements

Element Description
DeviceCompanionApplications Optional. The DeviceCompanionApplication element specifies the application that will be downloaded when the device is installed to the system.
PrivilegedApplications Optional. The PrivilegedApplications element specifies the application that will be allowed to access to the device with privileged rights.

Child element sequence

DeviceCompanionApplicationsPrivilegedApplications

Parent elements

There are no parent elements.

XSD

<xs:element name="SoftwareInfo" type="tns:SoftwareInfoType" />

<!-- Software Information Type Definition -->
<xs:complexType name="SoftwareInfoType">
  <xs:choice>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name="DeviceCompanionApplications" type="tns:DeviceCompanionApplicationsType" />
      <xs:element name="PrivilegedApplications" type="tns:PrivilegedApplicationsType" minOccurs="0" />
      <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" />
    </xs:sequence>
    <xs:element name="PrivilegedApplications" type="tns:PrivilegedApplicationsType" />
  </xs:choice>
</xs:complexType>

Element information

Property Value
Minimum supported system Windows 8
Can be empty Yes

See also