Registry Entries for the 2007 Microsoft Office System
The required add-in registry entries for the 2007 Microsoft Office system are located under the following registry key for all applications except Microsoft Office Visio:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\application name\Addins\add-in ID
For Visio, the registry entries belong under the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visio\Addins\add-in ID
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Applications in the 2007 Microsoft Office system only recognize Visual Studio Tools for Office add-ins that are registered under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. This means that you cannot deploy a Visual Studio Tools for Office add-in for the 2007 Microsoft Office system to all users on a computer by registering the add-in under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. |
The following table lists the entries that are required under this registry key.
Entry | Type | Value |
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Description
| REG_SZ | A brief description of the add-in. This description is displayed when the user selects the add-in in the Add-Ins pane of the Options dialog box in the Microsoft Office application. |
FriendlyName
| REG_SZ | A descriptive name of the add-in that is displayed in the COM Add-Ins dialog box in the Microsoft Office application. The default value is the add-in ID. |
LoadBehavior
| REG_DWORD | A value that specifies when the application attempts to load the add-in and the current state of the add-in (loaded or unloaded). By default, this entry is set to 3, which specifies that the add-in is loaded at startup. For more information, see LoadBehavior Values. |
Manifest
| REG_SZ | The full path of the deployment manifest for the add-in. The path can be a location on the local computer, a network share (UNC), or a Web server (HTTP). Note: When you build an add-in on the development computer, Visual Studio Tools for Office appends the string |vstolocal (that is, the pipe character | followed by vstolocal) to this registry entry. This helps Visual Studio Tools for Office to load the add-in when you run it from Visual Studio on the development computer. |
Registry Entries for Outlook Form Regions
If you create a custom form region in an add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, additional registry entries are used to register the form region with Outlook. These entries are created under a different registry key for each message class that the form region supports. These registry keys are in the following location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\FormRegions\message class
Like the other registry entries shared by all add-ins, Visual Studio creates the form region registry entries on the development computer when you build your project. If you use ClickOnce to deploy your add-in, the Setup program generated by the publish process also creates the entries on the end user computer.
For more information about the form region registry entries, see Specifying Form Regions in the Windows Registry. For more information about Outlook form regions, see Creating Outlook Form Regions.