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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.

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The simple way seems to go for Local Deployment, which meets pretty much my requirment. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/… – user3627767 Mar 5 '15 at 10:14
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Currently you can't redistribute anything VS2015 related, as it's not yet released and the license doesn't allow for it yet. – Mgetz Mar 5 '15 at 21:11
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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.

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They did respond in the comments that they are re-evaluating it in light of the negative feedback they received there, but no word if any decision was reached yet. So right now, that's what we have to assume. – Václav Slavík Apr 30 '15 at 9:54
    
And now...there is an update from 11Sep 2015 in that post that says it is supported. – DennisWelu Oct 28 '15 at 2:14

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