<description> element (Office development in Visual Studio)

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The description element of the vstov4 namespace stores the description for the Office solution that appears in the COM add-ins dialog box of Microsoft Office applications.

Syntax

<description>
</description>

Elements and attributes

Optional. The description element is in the vstov4 namespace. It contains the description of the add-in that appears in the COM add-ins dialog box of Microsoft Office applications.

The description element has no attributes or elements.

VSTO Add-in example

Description

The following code example illustrates the description element for an application-level solution deployed by using ClickOnce. This code example is part of a larger example provided in Application manifests for Office solutions.

Code

<vstov4:description>
  ContosoOutlookAddIn - Outlook add-in
  created with Visual Studio Tools for Office
</vstov4:description>

See also