I am trying to develop a Word 2016 add-in and publish the manifest file to the SharePoint 2013 Add-in Catalog. I use Visual Studio 2015 and Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 and chooses the Visual C# -> Office/SharePoint-> Web Add-ins->Word Add-in template.
If I deploy this project to the IIS and put the manifest file generated from visual studio in a network share, then it works fine and I can see the addin in word 2016 from the network share.
But if I try to put the same manifest file in the Add-in Catalog of the SharePoint 2013 in our environment, then the state of the manifest is “not valid”. After some research I found in SharePoint logs the message “Invalid Agave manifest 'AgaveCatalog/WordWebAddInTestManifestManifest.xml': Der Typ 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/officeappbasictypes/1.0:VersionOverrides' ist nicht deklariert.”. translated: “The type 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/officeappbasictypes/1.0:VersionOverrides' is not declared”
So I deleted all VersionOverrides references from the manifest and now its valid and word can see this add-in from SharePoint catalog. But this mean, I cannot use the “commands” feature in the manifest file to customize my add-in.
The Question: Is it possible to use commands(VersionOverrides) in the manifest file for word 2016 add-ins in the SharePoint 2013 Add-in catalog and if yes, how?
