<friendlyName> element (Office development in Visual Studio)
Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac
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The friendlyName
element of the vstov4
namespace stores the name that appears in the list of installed programs.
Syntax
<friendlyName>
</friendlyName>
Elements and attributes
The friendlyName
element is in the vstov4
namespace. The value appears in the list of installed programs on the computer, and in the COM VSTO Add-ins dialog box of Microsoft Office applications.
The friendlyName
element has no attributes or child elements.
VSTO Add-in example
Description
The following code example illustrates the friendlyName
element in an application-level solution deployed by using ClickOnce. This code example is part of a larger example provided in Application manifests for Office solutions.
Code
<vstov4:friendlyName>
ContosoOutlookAddIn
</vstov4:friendlyName>