There are many choices for providing a setup for your VC applications and I am not familiar with most of them, but the following is a partial list of what Microsoft offers. It is partial because it is just the stuff I have found that looks interesting.
In your VC documentation you should have a technical article called "Redistributing Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Applications" that is important.
Here are a few more things to look at, in case you are interested.
See my Visual C++ Programmer Stuff page for more C++ stuff.