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LarryW - 27 Mar 2008 19:15 GMT

I can't believe what pain having to put the VC90 'redist' folders under my
application subdirectory is turning out to be in our XP Embedded, download
application environment. I really need an answer as to why I can't put all
of the 'redist' DLL files in some common location, or at least put them all
in the same directory with the application the way I was able to with all
previous VS versions.

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Phil Wilson - 27 Mar 2008 20:50 GMT

Running the redist exe should out them in a common shared location,
Windows\WinSxS. Perhaps XPe is different, but if you run the redist exe the
files should end up in Windows\WinSxS, which is the common shared location
that'll be used by VS 2008 apps needing the CRT etc.

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>I can't believe what pain having to put the VC90 'redist' folders under my
> application subdirectory is turning out to be in our XP Embedded, download
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> in the same directory with the application the way I was able to with all
> previous VS versions.

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LarryW - 27 Mar 2008 21:34 GMT

I downloaded that from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4
D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en
and ran it but it doesn't put any redist '90' type files in WinSxS and a
program compiled for VC++ 9.0 won't run.

> From: "Phil Wilson" <phil.wilson@wonderware.something.com>
> Subject: Re: 'redist' still not answered
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> > in the same directory with the application the way I was able to with all
> > previous VS versions.

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LarryW - 27 Mar 2008 21:59 GMT

> I downloaded that from
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4
> D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en
> and ran it but it doesn't put any redist '90' type files in WinSxS and a
> program compiled for VC++ 9.0 won't run.

Looks like that 'redist' program is supposed to open some dialogs after
extracting some files. But on the XP Embedded system the dialogs don't open and
even using the /q switch it still doesn't put the files in WinSxS.

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