redistributable

I've gotten XNA running perfectly fine on Visual Studio 2012 and publishing, installing and running the game works fine as well on any computers that already have the XNA Framework Redistributable 4.0 installed but when I attempt to install on a computer that doesn't already have it, the install fails due to it being missing. Furthermore, it isn't even an option in the Prerequisites menu on the program's publish properties. When I open up an older project, the option exists but with a yellow exclamation triangle and I don't believe it is actually being set. Does anyone know how I can add the

If i install just Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable on my machine, can it support applications that was written for 2015 in other words, if I uninstall Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable and install Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable , will all the applications work without any errors? No they won't work The redistributable package is a .exe, which installs the required DLLs msvcrtXXXX.dll Where XXXX changes per build (VS2017, VS2015,...) It is also not reference counted, which means no matter how many people install it, one uninstall rips out the files. UPDATE The Visual Studio 2017 does not change

Is the package type (x86 or x64) dependent on my application type or on the OS type it is installed on? I.e., if I develop a 32-bit application do I need to deploy the x86 package only or deploy both packages and install x86 on 32-bit windows and x64 on 64-bit windows? The answer to this question 32-bit VC++ redistributable on 64 bit OS? suggests that it's only the x86 package, so it would be dependent on my application but it doesn't give any explanation/links. The MS download sites are also not specific on this. When you compile, all use of the standard library creates references that must