Using this example, what would happen if i only have installed 'Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4', but then find out a certain application we use has been developed with the 'Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1' in mind ? Will that mean that this application will not function correctly ? Or will the Update 4 version be sufficient and allow software created with an earlier sub-version of the same major Visual Studio version to run ?įor another example, lets say the 'Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable', is it also required to have the original Visual C++ 2010 (non-SP1) Redistributable intalled, to support applications created with the non-SP1 Visual Studio ? So, is it necessary to have all 4 of these versions installed ? I know that they have to be installed in order, else if you try and install a newer one and then go back and install an older one, it will present an error saying a newer version is already installed. Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 3

Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 What i would like to know is, are multiple sub-versions of the same major version really required ? For instance, there are 4 versions of the 'Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012', listed below for clarification: I understand that many of them will not be needed by the majority of users/applications, however i include them anyway since they provide consistency across the whole platform and we have a pretty diverse application spread which changes frequently enough. Presently, when i create either a Windows 10 VDI SOE, or a Windows Server 2016/2019 SOE for RDS/Citrix, I include almost all of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages from 2005 up to 2019. My question is around the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable applications/packages.

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