Hi Alex,

Thank you for your kind words!

From the technical point of view, there is no difference between the official MSM and EXE VC redistributable packages. And I don't know whether the VS 2008 MSM is a configurable merge module that allows you to "disable" ATL distribution.

It is recommended to use the standard vcredist_x86.exe to deploy the (release version) of the Visual C++ library DLLs as shared assemblies. You only have to run vcredist_x86.exe on the target computer and this will install all Visual C++ libraries as shared assemblies (installed in the WinSxS folder). You can do this from SB6 and SB7.

By the way, ATL support in the redistributable package adds only 257 KB to the installer.

SetupBuilder 7 already works very stable and both SB6 and SB7 share the same source code tree. But SB7 is beta software and although we tested the program thoroughly before distributing, the possibility remains that an unknown bug could surface.

Friedrich