Talk:VC 8.0 Redistributables

Thanks for your posting, I used your code to look to see if Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributables are installed.

They have a different key than your example, but after finding the appropriate key it worked fine.

I used REGEDIT, then looked in SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/UNINSTALL, then browsed the entries until I found the VC++ 2005 Redistributable:

My key was: A49F249F-0C91-497F-86DF-B2585E8E76B7

using that key it works great. I needed this for a project that was using SkinCrafter with the installed program and they require the VC++ libraries to function properly.

Again, thanks for posting your example, without it I'm not sure if I would have figured out how to make it work.

Kminear 21:21, 10 August 2007 (PDT)kminear

Same here, my key is {A49F249F-0C91-497F-86DF-B2585E8E76B7} too. So what would be correct - check for both keys?

Depends on whether you want to check for VC8 (VS2005), or VC8 SP1. See new "Registry Keys" section below. ZeBoxx 16:20, 17 July 2008 (PDT)

Registry Keys

Use SetRegview to access the correct registry (32bit vs 64bit) depending on your installer's needs.

• VC8 (VS2005) non-SP1

  * x86: a49f249f-0c91-497f-86df-b2585e8e76b7
  * x64: 6e8e85e8-ce4b-4ff5-91f7-04999c9fae6a
  * ia64: 03ed71ea-f531-4927-aabd-1c31bce8e187

( source: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/01/16/mailbag-how-to-detect-the-presence-of-the-vc-8-0-runtime-redistributable-package.aspx )

• VC8 (VS2005) SP1

  * x86: 7299052b-02a4-4627-81f2-1818da5d550d
  * x64: 071c9b48-7c32-4621-a0ac-3f809523288f
  * ia64: 0f8fb34e-675e-42ed-850b-29d98c2ece08

( source: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/01/24/updated-vc-8-0-runtime-redistributable-packages-are-included-in-visual-studio-2005-sp1.aspx )