Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (32bit) Silent Install (EXE) How to Install Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime Silently This article will serve as an informative guide and give you a clear understanding of how to perform a silent installation of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (VSTO) from the command line using the EXE installer. Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (VSTO) is a set of development tools that is required to run Microsoft Office based solutions built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 20.