How to determine if the 32-bit Visual Studio 2013 redistributable is installed on a user's machine reliably via the Registry?

Question

I am using DeployMaster to build an installer for a 32-bit Windows application written in C++ using Qt.

The executable depends on the Visual Studio 2013 redistributa

Answer 1

I found it here:

32bit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{13A4EE12-23EA-3371-91EE-EFB36DDFFF3E}
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{13A4EE12-23EA-3371-91EE-EFB36DDFFF3E}

64bit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{A749D8E6-B613-3BE3-8F5F-045C84EBA29B}

This is probably better than the devdiv keys, as its the Windows key used to uninstall the msi, if its been installed. Now I just wish Microsoft's devdiv could talk to the Windows team so we can have a canonical place to detect this stuff, and a canonical name for Redistributable. Hint Microsoft, it ain't called 'minimum runtime'