title: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for office runtime - end of the lifecycle
body: <p>The support for &quot;Visual Studio 2010 Tools for office runtime&quot; has been stopped and because of this we are currently looking for alternatives.</p>
  <p>The following link describes that the newer office versions (2013,2016) require &quot;Visual Studio 2010 Tools for office runtime&quot;:</p>
  <p>See &quot;Required runtime on end-user computer&quot;:
  <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/running-solutions-in-different-versions-of-microsoft-office?view=vs-2019" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/running-solutions-in-different-versions-of-microsoft-office?view=vs-2019</a></p>
  <p>But now that VSTO 2010 is no longer supported with Visual Studio 2010, the question is which runtime should we use for developing Office 2013 and 2016 plugins?
  See: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/visual-studio-2010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/visual-studio-2010</a></p>