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 ?
You can download the VC++ redistributables at:
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable latest supported downloads
As of July 2025, the latest are:
8.0.61001
for x86, 8.0.61000
for x649.0.30729.6161
(erroneously shown as 9.0.30729.5677
both on the microsoft.com page and in file properties of the installers)10.0.40219.325
11.0.61030.0
12.0.40664.0
14.44.35211.0
(the 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 packages share the same runtime files)For additional versioning information, see: