Where is microsoft.vcxx.crt.manifest located for visual studio 2017?

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from the article How to Distribute C run-time (CRT) Libraries with Your Application, we need to deploy Microsoft.VCXX.CRT.manifest to local folder.

but I searched the folder for my Visual Studio 2017(enterprise), I can not find this manifest file. this file is supposed to be :Microsoft.VC141.CRT.manifest

could anyone share tips with me?

What I have tried:

I searched to this folder on my machine and can not find this file:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.10.25017\x86\Microsoft.VC150.MFC

Posted 29-Aug-20 11:19am

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Updated 29-Aug-20 11:52am

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2020-08-29T11:52:00

As mentioned in the article you shared:

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You can copy CRT DLL files and Microsoft.VCXX.CRT.manifest file to your application folder, where XX is the version number. This is called a private installation, because these CRT DLLs won't be shared with other applications. This way may also reduce the size of your installer, because CRT DLLs usually take less space than a redistributable package. You can take the correct CRT DLL files from vcredist subfolder of your Visual Studio folder or from the Visual C++ redistributable package (it is installed to C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS directory).

For manifest:
Don't think it's a separate file and will be generated. Whether as separate file or embedded depends on configuration: Manifest Generation in Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs[^]

BTW, I would go ahead with the C++ redistributeable option.