Chilkat .NET Assemblies – Matching Visual Studio versions to .NET Framework Versions to VC++ Runtime Versions.

The .NET Framework version that corresponds to each Visual Studio release is as follows:

VS2022 — .NET 4.8
VS2019 — .NET 4.8
VS2017 — .NET 4.6, .NET 4.7
VS2015 — .NET 4.6
VS2013 — .NET 4.5 (actually 4.5.1, but we only care about major/minor numbers)
VS2012 — .NET 4.5
VS2010 — .NET 4.0
VS2008 — .NET 3.5
VS2005 — .NET 2.0

When using Chilkat .NET for a particular .NET Framework version, the corresponding VC++ Runtime redist (from Microsoft) needs to be installed on the system. Each VC++ redist that is needed is shown below:

Note: Microsoft has created a web page to consolidate all MSVC++ runtime redist downloads in a single page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads