This package includes runtime environment for CRT, C ++, ATL, MFC, OpenMP and MSDIA libraries. Some of the side-by-side assemblies of this package are installed in the WinSXS folder of Windows operating system , which is available in 64-bit Windows. The advantage of using this package is its development and bug fixes by Microsoft . This package is updated regularly by Microsoft every few years and fixes the bug and improves performance. Usually some of these packages are installed by installing any version of Windows but may require new packages when installing new software. Microsoft Visual C ++ Redistributable Package Features: Do not confuse Microsoft Visual C ++ Redistributable with a .NET Framework . .NET installation is only required for applications based on this framework, but software written in C ++ requires another package that we are going to introduce in this post. Developers usually use ready-made libraries that have DLL extensions when building their applications in Visual C ++ . These files can be public and shared between different applications. Programmers have two choices when releasing a program, they must either package the necessary DLLs with the program or use this standard C ++ shared library.