#Do i need every microsoft visual c++ install

#Do i need every microsoft visual c++ install

It would be great if I could just tell them 'look, just install VC++ redistributable version xyz and anything that needs one of the above four builds will work just fine' Relieve the pressure on our support staff to install all these components as well as our software when setting up machines for first use. Ideally I would just like to chuck 'em all.

So I'm starting to think a lot of the above are no longer necessary. And I'm finding that as I install our software on systems without installing the above first most of our applications are working perfectly normally without errors. Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2012 Redistributable - build 0Д«ut as the years have gone on many of the 3rd party components we used have been replaced with newer and better ones, and we include them to our Projects through NuGet. Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2010 Redistributable - build 9 Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2008 Redistributable - build 9.6161 This has led to us distributing as part of our initial installation process: Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2005 Redistributable (SP1) - build 1 Also, historically, these tended to come with various dependencies on Microsoft Visual Studio C++ runtime versions. NET Framework but historically we have had to include a number of 3rd party components. I've been looking around and I'm not sure I see a clear answer to this so I'm sorry if this has been asked before my 'Google-Fu' is failing me.