Aspnetcore.docs: Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable - 64 bit or 32 bit

[jawn]

I assume I can take the 64 bit if the system supports it - correct?

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• Content: Publish an ASP.NET Core app to IIS
• Content Source: aspnetcore/tutorials/publish-to-iis.md
• Product: aspnet-core
• Technology: aspnetcore-tutorials
• GitHub Login: @guardrex
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[guardrex]

@joeloff, do you know why the hosting bundle installer requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable? We were discussing this on a PR yesterday, but engineering didn't know why the installer was installing it.

How does the hosting bundle installer handle this? Does it install both x86 and x64?

I'm inclined to make the guidance say, as @jawn suggests, to install both if the system is x64.

[joeloff]

This was only part of the 1.0/1.1 hosting bundles. The .NET Core runtime bundle that we shipped back then downloaded and installed the C++ runtime if it wasn't installed on the machine. We listed it explicitly because enterprise customers in locked down environments ran into problem when the servers didn't have outside internet connections so their admins had to manually download and copy the c++ redists to the servers, install it and only then could they install the hosting bundle.

[guardrex]

Thanks @joeloff ... time to 🔪 this remark.