Content Element (Visual Studio Content Installer)

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03/28/2013

Groups content in a .vscontent file.

<Content>
    ...
</Content>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

Element	Description
FileName	Required element. Specifies the name of a file for the component.
DisplayName	Required element. Specifies the name that will be displayed in the Visual Studio Content Installer for the component.
Description	Required element. Specifies the tooltip text that will appear in the Visual Studio Content Installer to describe the component.
FileContentType	Required element. Specifies whether the component is an add-in, macro project, IntelliSense code snippet, starter kit or Visual Studio template, or a Toolbox control.
ContentVersion	Required element. Specifies which versions of Visual Studio the component supports.
Attributes	Optional element. Specifies custom information about the component, which varies based on FileContentType.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
VSContent	Required element. Contains all the metadata about the community content item.

VSContent

Required element.

Contains all the metadata about the community content item.

Remarks

Content is a required element.

Example

The following example shows the metadata for a macro community content component.

<VSContent xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vscontent/2005">
    <Content>
        <FileName>MyMacroProject.vsmacros</FileName>
        <DisplayName>My Macro Project</DisplayName>
        <Description> A macro project created for this example.</Description>
        <FileContentType>Macro Project</FileContentType>
        <ContentVersion>1.0</ContentVersion>
    </Content>
</VSContent>

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