redistributable

With Microsoft changing the pattern of registry entries in its latest versions, how do i detect if Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable is installed on a machine? My aim is to install VC++2015Redist since the software is written using VS2015. If i can successfully detect VC++2017Redist on a machine, then I skip my installation of VC++2015Redist The 2017 VC++ Redistributable installation upgrades/REPLACES the 2015 installation Installation of the Visual Studio 2017 Redistributables upgrades and replaces any existing installation of the 2015 Redistributables. I've checked this, and the 2015

Is there a Registry setting that I can look for to determine whether or not the Visual C++ redistributable is installed, whether standalone or as part of Visual Studio 2008? I know that I could launch the VC++ 2008 redistributable installer and let it handle the detection, but it would look cleaner if I can check for it and not bother launching the installer if the redistributable is already on the system. It's no biggie if there is no setting to search for, as this is just for the preliminary installers that we have for the new version of our software. We won't need it for the new Windows

It was announced that the Universal CRT would be a re-distributable DLL such that app-local deployment would still be possible. I have installed the Visual Studio 2015 Express Edition and I was looking for ucrtbase.dll in the SDK directories, but I could not find anything. The directory that I looked into was "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Kits\10", but that only has the debug version of the CRT under "Microsoft.UniversalCRT.Debug". I prefer not to copy any DLLs from my system, I always only package files from the "Redist" directories. So for instance (like with the previous