title: Visual Studio 2017 VB.Net Office 2010 Compatibility Issues
body: <p>I created a program in Visual Studio 2017 using VB.net, which takes form data and creates a Word document with an Excel graph. I am running Win 10 and Office 2016. I have successfully run the program on Windows 7 - 10 (32 or 64) on both Office 2013 and Office 2016. However, I need the program to run on a Win 10, Office 2010 machine. Any version of Windows with Office 2010 simply says the program/app has stopped running.</p>
  
  <p>Per what I have found on this site and other sites, it appears that such a program can run on Office 2010 with a certain .NET version and Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime installed. Here is the link:
  <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb772080.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb772080.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>I have tried installing these on multiple systems, but it seems to make no difference in the result. I used the Event Viewer to see what was going on, and it looked like there was some security setting preventing the program from operating with Word and Excel, but when I changed the security settings in those two programs per advice received elsewhere, I still got the same result.</p>
  
  <p>My searching leads me to believe there is a solution, and a simple one at that, but it has eluded me. Thanks in advance for advice.</p>