Acrobat and Visual C++ 2015

Question

Every time a new update is released for Acrobat XI, I package the update in the setup directory. For example, the latest update for Acrobat XI is version 11.0.20, or "AcrobatUpd11020.msp". I obtain the update from Adobe's FTP site (ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/11.x/11.0.20/misc). I place the .msp file in the extracted setup directory so that the update installs itself automatically when Setup.exe is run from within the directory. All I have to do is edit "setup.ini" with: "PATCH=AcrobatUpd11020.msp" and it's installed automatically in the background.

My question applies to Visual C++. The bundled version of VC++ for Acrobat XI is version 2010. The most current version of VC++ is 2015.

I would like to place VC++ 2015 in the extracted setup directory ("VC10RT_x64" directory to be exact), rename the VC++ 2015 redistributable to "vc_red" and edit "setup.ini" with something like this: "PATCH=AcrobatUpd11020.mspvcrtMsi=vc_red.msivcrtDir=VC10RT_x64".

Will I encounter any problems with installation? Is Acrobat XI specific to run only on VC++ 2010? Has anyone tried to implement this procedure?

Thank you.

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Strictly speaking this isn't Visual C++, it's the Visual C++ Runtime, which is very different. This is not cumulative; later versions do not include or replace earlier ones; an app which was made for the V10 runtime will always need V10. So your system needs to have all the runtimes for all the different apps and releases. Having all the different runtimes installed is probably best.

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