Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Cookbook

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Installs Microsoft Visual C++ runtime version 6 (2005), 9 (2008), 10 (2010), 11 (2012), 12 (2013), 14 (2015+) on Windows.

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Requirements

Platforms

Microsoft Windows 2012
Microsoft Windows 2012 R2
Microsoft Windows 2016
Microsoft Windows 2019

Chef

Chef 12.6+

Attributes

There are individual attributes within the attributes files for the URL, checksum, and package name of each Visual C++ runtime major and minor version.

If you wish to install anything except the latest packages, you may set one of

node['vcruntime']['vc6']['version']
node['vcruntime']['vc9']['version']
node['vcruntime']['vc10']['version']
node['vcruntime']['vc11']['version']
node['vcruntime']['vc12']['version']
node['vcruntime']['vc14']['version']

to the appropriate version.

It will install 32 bit version alongside 64bit version on 64bit systems.

Microsoft Versioning

As of cookbook version 2.0.0, the version of packages match the version value in Details on the installer, to facilitate matching for Inspec tests.

Versions in the same recipe replace prior versions except for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008.

Name	Version
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005	8.0.61000
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008	9.0.10229.0.30729.6161
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010	10.0.031910.0.0219
Microsoft Visual C++ 2012	11.0.0727.111.0.1106.111.0.0610.111.0.1030.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013	12.0.050112.0.0660.0 12.0.40664.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015	14.0.3026.014.0.4123.014.0.4212.014.0.24215
Microsoft Visual C++ 2017	14.0.25017.014.4.26429.4
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019	14.29.30135.0 14.29.30139.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022	14.30.30704.0 14.31.31103.0

Usage

Include the default recipe to install all supported versions:

{
  "name": "my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[vcruntime]"
  ]
}

Include vcruntime::vc6, vcruntime::vc9, vcruntime::vc10, vcruntime::vc11, vcruntime::vc12, or vcruntime::vc14 in your node's run_list to install specific versions only or vcruntime::default for all versions:

{
  "name": "my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[vcruntime::vc6]"
  ]
}

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