Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code

The Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (VSTO Runtime) ships with various versions of Visual Studio and Microsoft Office and follows the support lifecycle of the parent product.

It is also available to download and install independently. The versions of VSTO Runtime that are available on the download center follow the support lifecycle of the latest version of Microsoft Office that was available at the time of its release.

It is recommended that developers install the latest version of the VSTO Runtime with their applications. It will be supported when running with supported versions Office. If the VSTO Runtime needs to be serviced, only the latest version will be updated.

The following is a list of the VSTO Runtime releases and the corresponding version of Office for which its support lifecycle follows:

VSTO Runtime version	Release date	Microsoft Office version
10.0.21022	07/15/2010	Microsoft Office 2010
10.0.40303	12/21/2012	Microsoft Office 2010 SP1
10.0.31007	06/15/2011	Microsoft Office 2010 Sp1
10.0.40305	05/01/2013	Microsoft Office 2010 Sp2
10.0.31129	01/09/2013	Microsoft Office 2013
10.0.40309	06/18/2013	Microsoft Office 2013
10.0.40820	10/16/2013	Microsoft Office 2013
10.0.50325	04/10/2014	Microsoft Office 2013 SP1
10.0.60301	09/22/2015	Microsoft Office 2016
10.0.60715	07/20/2015	Microsoft Office 2016
10.0.60724	07/24/2015	Microsoft Office 2016
10.0.60825	11/19/2016	Microsoft Office 2016
10.0.60828	01/12/2018	Microsoft Office 2019 / Office 365 / Office 2021

For more information on the Office Support Lifecycle please see Lifecycle FAQ - Office, Office 365, and Microsoft 365.