Thanks for the responses. In particular, I didn't realize the newer redist packages can be safely run without detecting them before-hand. It seems like this could still be a problem for people who are not compressing the redists, but that is not my scenario.
I also discovered this blog post which was helpful: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/05/10008146.aspx >From that post, I found that these keys contain major, minor, and build version numbers: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VC\VCRedist\x86] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VC\VCRedist\x64] etc... There are equivalent keys all the way up to Visual Studio 2013, and all use the 32 bit registry locations, even for the 64 bit packages. This seems like it would ideal for package detection. -Dave On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Phill Hogland <phogl...@rimage.com> wrote: > You might want to look at this recent thread. > > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/V-C-2013-redist-detection-td7596368.html#a7596373 > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-FileSearch-in-64-bit-system-folder-tp7596738p7596754.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want excitement? > Manually upgrade your production database. > When you want reliability, choose Perforce > Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
