Specify value for ~remoteAppUrl in an Office add-in manifest

Question

I\'m writing an add-in for Outlook using the new framework. The manifest in the project template uses ~remoteAppUrl to represent the location of the web files. It w

Answer 1

Edit:

Visual Studio will not fill in the production URL, however you can copy your current manifest and replace the ~remoteAppUrl with your appropriate host manually, thus giving you a production and debug version of your add-in.

Original for posterity

~remoteAppUrl is a placeholder for wherever your files are hosted. For instance, if you have uploaded your add-in to an Azure Web App, your remote app url would be something along the lines of myWebApp.azurewebsites.net