<customizations> Element (Office Development in Visual Studio)

 

The customizations element of the vstov4 namespace contains all the information about installing and loading each Office solution.

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<customizations>  
  <customization  
    id  
    <document  
      solutionId  
    />  
  </customization>  
</customizations>
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<customizations>  
  <customization  
    id  
    <appAddin  
      application  
      loadBehavior  
      keyName>  
    <friendlyName></friendlyName>  
    <description></description>  
    <formRegions></formRegions>  
  </customization>  
</customizations>

The customizations element contains specific information about each Office solution. This element must be in the following namespace: vstov4=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vsto.v4. Child elements of the assembly must also be in this namespace.

The customizations element has no attributes.

The customizations element has the following child element.

customization

Required. The customization element in the vstov4 namespace is defined in <customization> Element (Office Development in Visual Studio).

Description

The following code example illustrates the customizations element for a document-level customization.

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This code example is part of a larger example provided in Application Manifests for Office Solutions.

Code

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<vstov4:customizations   
  xmlns:vstov4="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vsto.v4">  
  <vstov4:customization>  
    <vstov4:document   
      solutionId="73e" />  
  </vstov4:customization>  
</vstov4:customizations>

Description

The following code example illustrates the customizations element for an VSTO Add-in. This is an Outlook VSTO Add-in that includes form regions. This code example is part of a larger example provided in Application Manifests for Office Solutions.

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<vstov4:customizations   
  xmlns:vstov4="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vsto.v4">  
  <vstov4:customization>  
    <vstov4:appAddIn   
      application="Outlook"   
      loadBehavior="3"   
      keyName="ContosoOutlookAddIn">  
      <vstov4:friendlyName>  
        ContosoOutlookAddIn  
      </vstov4:friendlyName>  
      <vstov4:description>  
        ContosoOutlookAddIn - Outlook VSTO Add-in   
        created with Visual Studio Tools for Office  
      </vstov4:description>  
      <vstov4:formRegions>  
        <vstov4:formRegion  
            name="OutlookAddIn1.FormRegion1">  
          <vstov4:messageClass name="IPM.Note" />  
          <vstov4:messageClass name="IPM.Contact" />  
          <vstov4:messageClass name="IPM.Appointment" />  
        </vstov4:formRegion>  
      </vstov4:formRegions>  
    </vstov4:appAddIn>  
  </vstov4:customization>  
</vstov4:customizations>

Application Manifests for Office Solutions
Deployment Manifests for Office Solutions
ClickOnce Application Manifest

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