<customHostSpecified> Element (Office Development in Visual Studio)
The customHostSpecified element indicates that this solution is not a stand-alone application. Office solutions contain components that are hosted inside Microsoft Office applications.
<customHostSpecified />
Elements and Attributes
The customHostSpecified element is required for Office solutions. This element is in the co.v1 namespace and specifies that this deployment contains a component that will be deployed inside of a custom host, and is not a stand-alone application.
This element is a child of the first <entrypoint> element in the application manifest. There can be no other child elements in that <entrypoint> element or ClickOnce will raise a validation error during installation.
This element has no attributes and no child elements.
Example
The following code example illustrates the customHostSpecified element in an application manifest for a Visual Studio Tools for Office solution. This code example is part of a larger example provided in Application Manifests for Office Solutions.
<entryPoint>
<co.v1:customHostSpecified />
</entryPoint>
See Also
Reference
Application Manifests for Office Solutions