Where can I find “Outlook 2016 Add-in” for Visual Studio?

Question

I want to specifically create a VSTO for Outlook 2016 Desktop application but my Visual Studio 2013 Professional edition only has "Outlook 2013 Add-in" and the "App for Office" creates a Web App.

Where can I find this installer/option?

Answer 1

See Walkthrough: Creating Your First VSTO Add-In for Outlook . You need to choose the Outlook 2013 Add-in template in Visual Studio. Then you can replace the Outlook PIA with a new one which corresponds to Outlook 2016.

You may find the Running Solutions in Different Versions of Microsoft Office article helpful.

PS Try to install http://aka.ms/officedevtoolsforvs2015

Answer 2

If you have Office 2016 installed then you should have the Office 16.0 Object library in your COM references in Visual Studio.

I had this issue with the 2016 template option not showing and a build error of Cannot debug project because required version of MS Office application is not installed when I tried picking 2013.

Once I enabled the 16.0 Object Library the PIA (Primary Interop Assemblies) were added and after restarting Visual Studio the Outlook template option shows Outlook 2013 and 2016 VSTO Add-in