Microsoft Windows SDK Blog

My name is Karl Bridge and I’m the Programming Writer responsible for the Windows Sidebar documentation on MSDN and the Windows SDK. Based on comments and criticisms of the Sidebar developer documentation released with Windows Vista, I set out to...

The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 provides prerelease components designed to help you develop Windows applications using both native (Win32) and managed (.NET Framework) technologies, targeting the following Operating Systems...

Lori Pearce, our own Product Unit Manager for the Windows SDK team, was recently interviewed on Channel 9 . How does the Windows SDK Team build a product that supports development using both the Win32 and .NET Framework programming models? Hear it from...

The Windows Media Center Software Development Kit is designed to help developers create applications and software components that take advantage of features provided by Windows Media Center. Version 5.2 of the Media Center SDK was released on 8/6/2007...

What is the Windows SDK Forum? The Windows SDK Forum is a site hosted by MSDN where people interact by posting and reading messages about SDK topics that are of interest to them and the rest of the development community. Forums contain groupings of...

If you’ve tried to install the Windows SDK from a command line in quiet mode using setup.exe /q you have probably found that it’s not supported. Users are required to view and accept the Microsoft EULA during the installation , and that's not possible...

You’ve just downloaded your first Windows SDK and can’t wait to get started exploring the tools, samples, documents and other useful components that you’ve heard about. But wait, how do you get to all those goodies? To access the different components...