<dependentAssembly> Element (Visual Studio Tools for Office Reference)

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

Provides information about dependent assemblies.

<dependentAssembly>
   <assemblyIdentity
      name
      version
      publicKeyToken
      language
   />
</dependentAssembly>

Elements and Attributes

The dependentAssembly element is required and is in the asm.v2 namespace. It has no attributes.

dependentAssembly has the following child elements.

assemblyIdentity

The assemblyIdentity element is described in the topic <assemblyIdentity> Element (Visual Studio Tools for Office Reference).

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 the dependentAssembly element in an application manifest for a Visual Studio Tools for Office application. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the Application Manifests for Office Solutions (2003 System) topic.

<dependency asmv2:name="Project1">
    <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="Project1" version="1.0.1.1"
            language="neutral" publicKeyToken="null" />
    </dependentAssembly>
    <asmv2:installFrom codebase=
        "http://deployweb/project1/project1_1.0.1.1/project1.dll"/>
</dependency>

See Also

Reference

Application Manifests for Office Solutions (2003 System)