Typically, these packages are used in cases whereĬustomer machines may not have the necessary version of the Visual C++ The download page contains several 'static' packages that already contain the runtime.Īll the 'static' packages contain either native or mixed-mode assemblyīinaries linked statically to the appropriate version of the VisualĬ++ runtime. SQLite depends on the Visual C++ runtime, but you don't need to install it on the client machine. But instead you can use SQLite which doesn't require any installation on the client machine. As others pointed out, SQL Server Compact has been deprecated.
