Can we install VC++ 2015 Redistributable Package in custom location, where as non-administrator has rights to access?

Question

We have VC++ projects in VS 2008 and Wpf Projects in 2010. We want to migrate both of them to Visual Studio 2015.

The biggest problem we face, while a new user needed to install our software is, he need to install the pre-requisite of installing VC++ Redistributable Package, which requires Administrator rights. Then he need to install our application via clickonce server.

We want to ease this part - installing VC++ Redistributable Package.

Is the new 2015 VC++ Redistributable can be installed in my application path, without requiring administrator rights? I could not the spot the link to download VS 2015 VC++ R P link - please provide.

I got the suggestion of using /MT (linking statically) from below link, but we want the application to be statble (as we also dispatch patches), we don't want a library conflict.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/a8d4ca59-c295-43bf-b34e-518fe2f7977c/vc-2015-redistributable-package?forum=vclanguage#667db896-f517-4fa5-b5b7-b5b0c3d12d52

Please, help.

Answer 1

I believe no, you can't do that. Read this article at VC++ team blog: Introducing the Universal CRT, where James McNellis said:

App-local deployment of the Universal CRT is not supported.