How To Detect the presence of the Visual C++ 2010 Redist Package

Visual C++ 2010 redistributable package detection registry values

• Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VC\VCRedist\x86]
  Installed = 1 (REG_DWORD)
  
  
• Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64)
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VC\VCRedist\x64]
  Installed = 1 (REG_DWORD)
  
  
• Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (ia64)
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\VC\VCRedist\ia64]
  Installed = 1 (REG_DWORD)
  

And;
Visual C++ 2010 redistributable package product codes

• Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) - {196BB40D-1578-3D01-B289-BEFC77A11A1E}
• Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) - {DA5E371C-6333-3D8A-93A4-6FD5B20BCC6E}
• Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (ia64) - {C1A35166-4301-38E9-BA67-02823AD72A1B}

Thanks to Aaron Stebner's blog post for finding this valuable advice.

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