<description> Element (Visual Studio Tools for Office Deployment Reference)

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Note

Applies to

The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office.

For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

Project type

  • Document-level projects

  • Application-level projects

Microsoft Office version

  • Microsoft Office 2003

Identifies application information used to create a shell presence and an Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.

<description
   publisher
   product
/>

Elements and Attributes

The description element is required and is in the asmv2 namespace. It contains no child elements and has the following attributes.

Attribute

Description

publisher

Required. Identifies the company name used for icon placement in the Windows Start menu and the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel, when the deployment is configured for install.

product

Required. Identifies the full product name. Used as the title for the icon installed in the Windows Start menu.

Remarks

The description element is required in all deployment configurations, including when the deployment is configured for launch.

Application and deployment manifests in Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions are not signed, as ClickOnce manifests are. The manifests cannot be validated before they are used.

Some of the fields in application and deployment manifests that are generated by the publish tools are not used in Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions, including some fields that identify properties of the assembly such as size and version.

Example

The following code example illustrates a description element in a Visual Studio Tools for Office deployment manifest. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the Deployment Manifests for Office Solutions (2003 System) topic.

<description asmv2:publisher="Microsoft" 
    asmv2:product="ExcelApplication1" 
    xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">Deployment 
    manifest description here.</description>

See Also

Reference

Deployment Manifests for Office Solutions (2003 System)