Full Name:
Application and Deployment Manifests in Office Solutions

Short Name:
Application and Deployment Manifests in Office Solutions

Type of Entity:
C#

Abstract:
An application manifest is an XML file that provides information used by a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System solution to locate and update its assemblies. Each Microsoft Office Word 2003 document and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 workbook created with Visual Studio Tools for Office has an application manifest embedded in the document or workbook. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 add-ins created with Visual Studio Tools for Office have an external application manifest file that is located on each client computer. An application manifest can be used with a deployment manifest, which is an XML file stored on the server that provides the information needed to locate the most current version of the application manifest and assemblies. For more information about the Runtime Storage Control, see Runtime Storage Control Overview. For more information about the contents of application and deployment manifests, see Application Manifests for Office Solutions and Deployment Manifests for Office Solutions.

MSDN Source URL:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/a3swb498.aspx