Requirements for Office Application Deployment
The requirements for deploying Microsoft Office applications differ, depending on the version of Office that those applications require. For more information, see Deploying Office Solutions.
Outlook Add-in projects require additional information for deployment. For more information about the interaction between Microsoft Office and Excel and Word applications, see "Office Solutions Architecture Overview" at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=54801.
For more information about Outlook Add-ins and Microsoft Office, see "Architecture of the Outlook Add-in Support in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office" at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=54803.