SQL Server 2017 Express Installation fails

Question

I am trying to install SQL Server 2017 Express on Windows 10 and it is failing.

Here is the details it shows me after failure:

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Answer 1

I figured it out for my environment. If you have Visual Studio 2017, go back into the installer and install the "ATL C++" workload. Now when you go through the SQL Server 2017 install it will say C++ already installed and the installation will be successful.