WiX - Set MSI's Program name

Question

in my WiX installer, if I right-click my MSI, hit Properties, go to Details, and browse the details of my MSI package, I see that under Origin, the default Program name is set to

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How can I change the Program name that appears in the Origin section of my MSI's details from my WiX project?

Answer 1

That property is in the Summary Information Stream: Creating Application Summary property Windows Explorer simply calls it Program.

WiX follows the MSI standard and put's the name of the tool and version that created the MSI. WiX doesn't have any attributes in the schema to override this. If it really bugs you, you'd need to do a postbuild script to tweak the summary information stream prior to any code signing that you may do.