Even the latest 1607 cumulative kb3176929 still don't support ProfessionalEducation as applicable edition did msft created that edition just to add its license to Professional and Enterprise, and not ment to be actually installed?
Hi Burfadel ; Can you please provide the direct link for C++ 2012 runtime 11.0.61135.400 if possible ? Thanks in advance
There are no links. The files are taken from the apps package for VS 2012 projects put onto the store. The runtime files are the same, just later versions. They do not include an installer, the msi was taken from the previous version and updated accordingly. Installing the original package for the most part, won't be useful
Then they probably are not meant to be put into system32! They may be a shimmed Centennial version which is not meant for regular desktop apps!
No, these are for regular desktop apps. Apps converted with Project Centennial are still 100 percent desktop apps, they are just presented in a different fashion and use a different installer. The installed files of the actual application are 100 percent identical to the files before the conversion. It's why there are .appx based runtimes for VS 2012, VS 2013, and VS 2015. The runtimes for 2013 and 2015 are not newer than what is otherwise available, 2012 is newer because 2012 hasn't been updated in a long time. If you do not believe this, simply download the packages for 2013 or 2015, and compare each file with the same version with the normal installer. You will find that the files are bit identical as long as the versions are the same. You obviously can't do that with the 2012 files because there are no 2012 equivalents. All the conversion does is get a snapshot of how a program is installed including install location of the files, registry entries etc, and then uses this snapshot in a package suitable for the store. The runtimes are therefore proper desktop runtimes, but they too have just come in an appx wrapper (they run the original install, make a snapshot and package into the appx installer style).