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Visual Studio 
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The description element of the vstov4 namespace stores the description for the Office solution that appears in the COM add-ins dialog box of Microsoft Office applications.
Syntax
<description>
</description>
Elements and attributes
Optional. The description element is in the vstov4 namespace. It contains the description of the add-in that appears in the COM add-ins dialog box of Microsoft Office applications.
The description element has no attributes or elements.
VSTO Add-in example
Description
The following code example illustrates the description element for 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:description>
ContosoOutlookAddIn - Outlook add-in
created with Visual Studio Tools for Office
</vstov4:description>