How to install VC80CRT debug runtimes without full visual studio 2005?

Question

I can\'t run a debug sdk application because it requires both VC 8 and VC 9 versions of the CRT. But it only requires visual studio 2008 for plugin dev, which is what I need

Answer 1

You can create a simple setup project (vdproj) which pulls in the debug merge modules.

This works fine up to Visual Studio 2010 (VS10) but is not supported for 2012 (VS11) and later :o(