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I have a c++ application developed using Visual Studio 2015, along with a Wix installer and a Burn bootstrapper. Previous versions of the application were able to use the Visual Studio merge module to install the necessary prerequisites, but it appears that this isn't an option when using Visual Studio 2015 (see Redistributables for deploying C++ exe developed with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 7 ). Following the advice in that link, we have started installing vcredist with Burn using an ExePackage with vital="yes". This mostly works great - we've had several customers who have the

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

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