Introduction

Microsoft Redistributable Wizard is a C# library developed using .NET 6, designed to identify installed Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages on Windows systems.

Features

• Detection of all Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables (2005 to 2022)
• Lists installed and missing redistributables
• Supports both x86 and x64 architectures

Requirements

• Windows Operating System
• .NET 6 Framework

Installation and Usage

Compile the project and include it as a project reference into your own project
Search NuGet for the package, click install

Contributing

If you have suggestions for improvements or new features, feel free to fork this repository and submit a pull request. Here’s how you can contribute:

• Fork the repository
• Create a new branch for your feature (git checkout -b feature/yourfeature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some yourfeature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin feature/yourfeature)
• Open a pull request

To-Do

Here are some enhancements and features we're looking to add:

• Give the user the option to install redistributables (Directly from the Microsoft Website)
• Auto installer
• Provide different ways to detect the installation of the packages
• More comprehensive system compatibility checks