Product Representation Within WMI

As far as the Windows Installer is concerned, software is organized in a three-tier hierarchy: Products contain one or more software features; these features, in their turn, consist of one or more elements (see Figure 6.3)

Figure 6.3. Organization of products.

Products sit at the top of the hierarchy. They represent complete, packaged applications or systems, such as Microsoft Office 2000 Professional. Within WMI, products are represented by instances of Win32_Product, a subclass of the CIM_Product class. Its primary key is a combination of three properties: a Name, a Version, and an IdentifyingNumber. All ...

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