Microsoft VC++ 2008 Redistributables

The Microsoft Visual C 2008 Redistributable Package installs runtime components of Visual C Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C on a computer that does not have Visual C 2008 installed.
This package installs runtime components of C Runtime (CRT), Standard C , ATL, MFC, OpenMP and MSDIA libraries.

For libraries that support side-by-side deployment model (CRT, SCL, ATL, MFC, OpenMP) they are installed into the native assembly cache, also called WinSxS folder, on versions of Windows operating system that support side-by-side assemblies.