Bootstrapper link for Visual C++ Runtime Libraries (vcredist) no more working for VS2015 (14)

Question

We have a setup which is using a bootstrapper checking and fetching (if needed) the "Microsoft.Visual.C++.14.0.x64" prerequisite.

The official bootstrapper package installed on the setup build machine contains the following link:
<String Name="VCRedistX64">http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/2/4/d242c3fb-da5a-4542-ad66-f9661d0a8d19/vcredist_x64.exe</String>

However this link doesn't seem to work anymore (there is a 404 - File or directory not found), which is failing our setup run.

Does this mean that the package is no more supported ? I though VS14 end of support was in 2025.
Do you see any others reasons ?

Answer 1

Hello @Jean-François Botalla-Gambetta ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Please kindly check if this link: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe could meet your requirement.

Details:

Refer to this document The latest supported Visual C++ downloads and the source link is provided for VS 2015.

Note Visual C++ 2015, 2017 and 2019 all share the same redistributable files.

Best Regards,
Tianyu

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