VSTO Prerequisites

No matter how your users are going to get the customized documents onto their machines, they will need some prerequisites, as follows:

• Microsoft Office Service Pack One, which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9C51D3A6-7CB1-4F61-837E-5F938254FC47

• The primary interop assemblies (PIAs), which can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3c9a983a-ac14-4125-8ba0-d36d67e0f4ad

• The .NET Framework 2.0

• The VSTO runtime

Those last two will also be available as stand-alone setup packages, should you want to deploy them. The VSTO runtime redistribution setup package (vstor.exe) is available on the VSTO installation CD-ROM, as is the .NET Framework 2.0 setup package (dotnetfx.exe). The .NET Framework2.0 setup package will also be made available through Windows Update.