
Furthermore, I reckon that this would not detect Visual Studios and thus unnecessarily install the VCRedist Package when it's already on a developers machine.

9.01 vs 9.17) has proper GUIDs, which I am not able to guess or predict for future versions.

The answer of the duplicate question I am referring to (the accepted one) does not work for me because every tiny release (e.g. I understand the correct way would be to build msi with merge modules, but it's not on my hands. Software I am maintaining the setup for depends on VC++ 2008 (SP1, precisely), thus I need to find a solution to install VCRedist if not yet installed.

I have a question very similar to this one but the answer does not work for me.
