A new product category called Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime will be added to WSUS

According to the great WSUS product team blog there will be a new product category called Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime added under the product family called Developer Tools, Runtimes, and Redistributables.  So what is the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime you ask? 

To run solutions that are created by using the Microsoft Office developer tools in Visual Studio 2010, the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime must be installed on end user computers. The Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime consists of two main components:

• The Office extensions for the .NET Framework. These components are managed assemblies that provide the communication layer between your solution and the Microsoft Office application. For more information, see Understanding the Office Extensions for the .NET Framework.

• The Office solution loader. This component is a set of unmanaged DLLs that Office applications use to load the runtime and your solutions. For more information, see Understanding the Office Solution Loader.

To read the announcement straight from the source see New category under Developer Tools, Runtimes, and Redistributables.

J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer