VC++ runtime version check

[ben2]

Hi, I have a two part question, can be written in either C++ or C# 1. How to figure out which versions of VC++ runtime installed on the computer? 2. How do I write a bootsrap program that checks if Visual C++ 2008 Libraries installed or not and then goes and install Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package if not installed? Thanks Ben

[Judah Gabriel Himango]

1. IIRC, there's a Windows Side by Side (SxS) "assembly cache" for native dlls that might contain this information. Ask in the C++ forums for more info. 2. There's already a bootstrapper package in Visual Studio 2008 for this. See \Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages. Or, if you're building your own setup program inside Visual Studio, right-click on your setup project, Add Merge Module, then it will list the VC 2008 modules to include.

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