Where to download vcredist?

Question

I feel a little stupid asking this question, but I hope that this might be helpful to others as well.

Background: We/I are developing some software with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (VC9). We would like to provide the vcredist along the software on the cd.

Now, I am used to ask google "download vcredist 2008 sp1" and usually it leads me to the following (also bookmarked) web pages:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582 (32 bit)
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2092 (64 bit)

I think I have downloaded different versions (9.0.30729.01 and later 9.0.30729.17) from that same URL as they came available. Today, only the .17 is available on that page. Now, a customer complained and told me that there is a 9.0.30729.6161 available, but I can't find it. The closest I could get was 9.0.30729.5677:

• When I searched google for that specific version, it lead me to this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2538243 which is saying, that a security update is available.
• The linked Security Bulletin https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-025 lists the vcredist 2008 sp1 as affected and as a new link to something that seems to be an updated version of the vcredist 2008 sp1, although it has a slightly different name, in that it also bears the "mfc" in it's name: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26368
• File names, file sizes and version numbers suggest these are updated versions of the vcredist 2008 sp1. This is the version 9.0.30729.5677

Is there ONE URL where I can always pull the newest version ?

Is there some kind of notification system (email list, rss-feed, ...) that informs me about a new vcredist ?

Answer 1

You can download the VC++ redistributables at:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2977003

As of now, the latest are:

• Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) SP1 w/ MFC Security Update: 8.0.61001 (8.0.61000 for x86)
• Visual Studio 2008 (VC++ 9.0) SP1 w/ MFC Security Update: 9.0.30729.6161
• Visual Studio 2010 (VC++ 10.0) SP1 w/ MFC Security Update: 10.0.40219.325
• Visual Studio 2012 (VC++ 11.0) Update 4: 11.0.61030.0
• Visual Studio 2013 (VC++ 12.0) Update 5: 12.0.40660.0
• Visual Studio 2015 (VC++ 14.0) Update 3: 14.0.24215.1
• Visual Studio 2017 (VC++ 14.1): 14.16.27012.6
• Visual Studio 2019 (VC++ 14.2): 14.25.28508.3

Note: The 2015, 2017, and 2019 packages share the same runtime files, hence only the latest of the series is required.

For additional versioning information, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B