Microsoft Update for Visual Studio 2005

Relevant for

All customers who use WinC in their applications.

Problem

Microsoft has released an update for Visual Studio 2005. This update has been installed on PCs that run Visual Studio as part of the normal automatic update (released 14/6-2011).

The server runtime should be updated automatically when you check for updates for the server. However, we have found that a number of customers does not let their servers be updated automatically - and that manual checks for updates are done rarely if at all.

This means that the redistributable C++ runtime on the production servers in some cases will not be the one that Visual Studio expects.

When you deploy recompiled or new C++ objects to the server, errors will occur when the new objects are called, as they need the updated runtime.

The same objects will work without problems on the development PC - as the new runtime is installed as part of the update for Visual Studio.

Solution

In most cases, it should be sufficient to check for updates for your server and install the updates found.

If this does not solve the issue, you can download the redistributable package for Visual Studio 2005 and install it on the production server.

The description of the Visual Studio update contains a link to the updated redistributable package for Visual Studio 2005.