I've also been doing builds on 2005 (and 2008) and providing those builds for quite a while, and yes you have to either install the new runtime dll (using that installer) or bundle it in side-by-side configuration. I have yet to hit runtime issues but I know other people have not been so lucky. In any case I'm just asking for "official" builds with new compilers for people to start testing/using.
I'm all for it :) VC 2005 has better compiler.
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