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Bill in Co
Flightless Bird
Prologue:
It seems some of the newer apps like to use their own customized DLL
versions of some of the standard windows DLLs, and can do so by using
SideBySide if the newer Visual C++ libraries are already installed. (As I
understand it, "SideBySide" was designed to support this in an attempt to
reduce "DLL Hell" for some applications needing their own customized DLL
versions).
After installing a couple of newer apps, I started getting these SideBySide
errors in the event log (due to missing VC90 components), so I installed a
newer version of the Visual C++ redistributable (Visual C++ 2008 in my
case), and that solved the error messages in the event log (this might
benefit someone else noting the same issue!).
However, I don't quite understand something. After installing the updated
VC++ redistributable the event log issue is resolved.
But don't the newer apps have to be reinstalled again to take advantage of
the newer DLL libraries, so that now the newer customized program DLL's can
now be installed? Or maybe they already were previously added, but were
just not usable, perhaps to the WinSxS subdirectory. ??
It seems some of the newer apps like to use their own customized DLL
versions of some of the standard windows DLLs, and can do so by using
SideBySide if the newer Visual C++ libraries are already installed. (As I
understand it, "SideBySide" was designed to support this in an attempt to
reduce "DLL Hell" for some applications needing their own customized DLL
versions).
After installing a couple of newer apps, I started getting these SideBySide
errors in the event log (due to missing VC90 components), so I installed a
newer version of the Visual C++ redistributable (Visual C++ 2008 in my
case), and that solved the error messages in the event log (this might
benefit someone else noting the same issue!).
However, I don't quite understand something. After installing the updated
VC++ redistributable the event log issue is resolved.
But don't the newer apps have to be reinstalled again to take advantage of
the newer DLL libraries, so that now the newer customized program DLL's can
now be installed? Or maybe they already were previously added, but were
just not usable, perhaps to the WinSxS subdirectory. ??