Deploying VSTO Add-Ins
You can deploy VSTO add-ins to customers in several ways including Windows Installer and ClickOnce (See Chapter 54, “Setup & Deployment Projects for Windows Installer,” and Chapter 55, “Deployingt Applications with ClickOnce”). The consideration you have to do is that VSTO add-ins require the full trust level. Because of this, deploying via Windows Installer can be a little bit more difficult than using ClickOnce because you have to set manually different settings. ClickOnce is instead more appropriate for at least three reasons:
• It is easy to configure and takes care of security settings for you; this is also the reason why Visual Studio automatically adds a test certificate to your solution when you first run it. ...
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