<assembly> Element (Visual Studio Tools for Office Deployment Reference)
Note |
Applies to |
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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
Microsoft Office version
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The assembly element is the top-level element for the deployment manifest.
<assembly
manifestVersion
/>
Elements and Attributes
The assembly element is the root element and is required. Its first contained element must be an assemblyIdentity element. The manifest elements must be in the following namespaces:
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1
urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2
http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig\#
Child elements of the assembly must also be in these namespaces, by inheritance or by tagging.
The assembly element has the following attribute.
Attribute |
Description |
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manifestVersion |
Required. This attribute must be set to 1.0. |
Remarks
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 an assembly element in a deployment manifest for a Visual Studio Tools for Office solution. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the Deployment Manifests for Office Solutions (2003 System) topic.
<asmv1:assembly xsi:schemaLocation="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1
assembly.adaptive.xsd" manifestVersion="1.0"
xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"
xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"
xmlns:xrml="http://www.xrml.org/schema/2001/11/xrml2core"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">