Good Point Mark, I remember that I had difficulties too and still have to install my own (updated) vcredist version at customers. Studio is 8.0.50727.867 german at my side. I blamed it on MFC, but as CRT is provided even, that might make a difference
Willi, the corresponding version can be found under c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86\ (vcredist_x86.exe from 14.5.2011 version 2.0.50727.5672)
I found crt 8.0.50727.6195 installed on my PC, that is used by studio to link against (SP2 and all updates)
Unfortunately I don't use fseek/ftell (I use CFile functions) so I cannot tell if that really matters.
Regards, Michael