10.3.1.2.1 Add-in Security Settings

Microchip Studio provides settings in a Tools Options page named Add-in/Macros Security to enhance security by preventing malicious add-ins from automatically activating.

Also, this options page allows you to specify the folders for which Microchip Studio searches for .Addin registration files to enhance security by allowing limiting the locations where .Addin registration files can be read, helping prevent maliciously. Addin files from inadvertently being used.

The settings in the Add-in/Macros Security, Environment, and Options Dialog Box that relate to add-in security are:

• Allow add-in components to load. Checked by default. When checked, add-ins are allowed to load in Microchip Studio. When unchecked, add-ins are prohibited from loading in Microchip Studio.
• Allow add-in components to load from a URL. Unchecked by default. When checked, add-ins are allowed to be loaded from external Web sites. When unchecked, remote add-ins are prohibited from loading in Microchip Studio. If an add-in cannot load for some reason, then it cannot be loaded from the web. This setting controls only the loading of the add-in DLL. The .Addin registration files must always be located on the local system.