Best Practice regarding VC Runtime-Collection of common programming errors

11 years ago

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Let us take VS 2010 as example. I have an app and that needs to be deployed on the end user’s system. I have the following algorithm:

1) If the code is built using Visual Studio 2010 (without SP1) then the installer needs to check/install atleast VC++ 2010 runtime 10.0.30319.

2) If the code is built using Visual Studio 2010 SP1 then the installer needs to check/install at-least VC++ 2010 runtime 10.0.40219.

I know that the latest Service Pack(SP) of VC++ 2010 runtime would support the apps developed using non-SP/old SP Visual Studio 2010.

Thus, is it not the best practice to install the latest version of VC++ Runtime on the end user machine, irrespective of the Service-Pack-status of Visual Studio? I feel this will be the safer option when it comes to security etc..

Please enlighten me.