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.