Please point me to redistributable package for Visual Studio 2005

Question

I have the following WinSxS

C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.6195_none_d09154e044272b9a

I need to find the corresponding resdistributable package so i can redistribute a old dll that uses this one. Probably need all corresponding if not included such as the ATL.

Thanks

-Ed

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Ed

Answer 1

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3387

Answer 2

Hi ED,

According to your description, I'd like to move this thread to "Visual Studio Setup and Installation" forum for better support where more experts live.

Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards,

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Helen Zhao [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 3

Hi Ed,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

From the number "8.0.50727.6195",the redistributable package you needed is "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)" which can be download from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3387 which is the same as "Brian Muth" mentioned. 

Best regards, 

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Barry Wang [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

while you stated "From the number "8.0.50727.6195",the redistributable package you needed is "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)" which can be download fromhttp://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3387 which is the same as "Brian Muth" mentioned. " 

it sounds like what he is actually looking for (based on my own experience with this issues) is the merge module containing those dlls for redistribution with his project. The redistributable download from that link does contain the dll files but does not distribute the .msm files to program files\common files\merge modules\ I havent been able to find those anywhere and attempts to manually extract the msm files from that redistrib file seems to corrupt the msms. If you install Visual Studio 2005 and run the updates it also does NOT provide those modules. It provides an older version of the module that is missing the security update for 50727.6195 from 2011. 

Also while the redist that contains those dlls shares the same name its dated 2011 while the one you linked has a 2006 date on it so it must also be older than the version the original poster sited in his request.