title: Download VC++ 2008 Merge Modules without installing VS2008?
body: <p>Is it possible to download the merge modules for VC++ 2008 (CRT) without having Visual Studio?</p>
  
  <p>I have an old Visual Studio 6 project and an old Install Shield Installer. I am using some third-party dlls that are dependent on MSVCR90.DLL among others (installing the dll in my program folder doesn't work though maybe I am missing some others.)</p>
  
  <p>What does make it work is manually installing the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable SP1 (vcredist_x86.exe) on the client machine.</p>
  
  <p>I read <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2007/10/12/how-to-redistribute-the-visual-c-libraries-with-your-application.aspx" rel="nofollow">here</a> that the preferred way to distribute these pieces is through the associated merge modules.  But I can't find a way to get the merge modules if I don't already have VS 2008 installed!</p>
  
  <p>By the way, the third-party dlls do come with their own OEM installer but it is 80 MB and I'm hoping to avoid having to distribute that as well.  The vcredist_x86.exe is only 4 MB.</p>