Where to download vcredist?

lImbus picture lImbus · Jun 15, 2012 · Viewed 44.9k times · Source

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:

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:

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

Marc05 picture Marc05 · Aug 24, 2012

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