Components

Components are a mechanism for grouping plug-ins. Components, and thus all of their plug-ins, can be installed and uninstalled. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) should look at components as the means of delivering their tooling. Simple tools may consist of only one plug-in, while complex tools may require many. Components give ISVs one concept to manipulate as they scale from small to large tools.

One place components are found is in the Help Menu's Software Updates section.