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The runtime works dynamically. When you launch a program like Adobe Photoshop, a complex PC game, or even Microsoft Office, the application sends a request to the operating system to load specific .dll files (Dynamic Link Libraries) provided by the Visual C++ Redistributable. If the correct version of the runtime is missing, the application will fail to launch, often resulting in errors such as "The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140.dll was not found."

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If you’re building on a fresh build agent (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins), . Always install the redistributable as part of your build setup: The runtime works dynamically