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Application 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 Application element specifies the name of the application software that created the device metadata package.

Usage

<Application>
  text
</Application>

Attributes

There are no attributes.

Text value

A string that contains between 1 and 256 characters inclusive.

Child elements

There are no child elements.

Parent elements

Element Description
MetadataBuilderInformation The MetadataBuilderInformation element specifies the application that created the device metadata package.

XSD

<xs:element name="Application" type="tns:ApplicationType" />

<xs:simpleType name="ApplicationType">
   <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
     <xs:minLength value="1" />
     <xs:maxLength value="256" />
  </xs:restriction>
 </xs:simpleType>

Remarks

The Application element is not used by the Windows 7 operating system. It is reserved for use by the OEM and developers.

See also