Coming soon: Windows SDK

re: Coming soon: Windows SDK

Joe Chung — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:18:27 GMT

Does this mean that the Windows (WinFX) SDK is out of beta?

re: Coming soon: Windows SDK

Steve Hall — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:12:27 GMT

HHuuummm....

How does this "Windows SDK" fit in with the "Platform SDK", the ".NET SDK", and "WinFX SDK". It sounds like you're replacing the "Platform SDK", but I'm not sure...

If you're replacing the "Platform SDK", I would strongly suggest you instead rename it "Win32 SDK" and move it to the "MDSN Archive Library". With each paradigm shift (such as Win16 to Win32), the former "Windows SDK" (now called the "Platform SDK") lost a lot of useful samples...and it would be nice if the Win32 samples weren't just tossed out in a frenzy to get WinFX samples out the door...

On the other hand, if you're simply renaming the "WinFX SDK" and not obseleting the "Platform SDK", I would still strongly suggest you rename the old "Platform SDK" to "Win32 SDK" so as to reduce confusion over which SDK contains what.

re: Coming soon: Windows SDK

Jason Sacks — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:52:19 GMT

The Windows SDK was formerly referred to as the Win32 SDK, and this should be more an incremental change than a large change. We always are adding and removing samples - that's part of any release we do - but most of the changes you'll see will hopefully not cause you hassles.

The idea of archiving releases within the MSDN Archive is interesting. We did that with our Web and Internet samples about a year ago. There are specific issues around archiving old samples that might prevent them from going there, but it makes sense to put old docs there that aren't superceded by changes in the product.

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Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:17:05 GMT

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Demetrius Tsitrelis — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:15:34 GMT

Can you clear up this for me?

"The SHA API is provided with the Network Access Protection platform and is documented in the Longhorn Software Development Kit (SDK)."

I see this in the recently (last couple of days) article on the Network Access Protection that will be in the next version of Windows Server. However, neither the current Platform SDK nor the current "Vista SDK" seem to say anything about the NAP APIs. Do you know if they will be in the Vista SDK release you are talking about?

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mentas — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:15:48 GMT

Windows SDK != WinFX ?

Windows SDK is unmanaged platform (base for WinFX)?

re: Coming soon: Windows SDK

Jason Sacks — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:53:41 GMT

Windows SDK = Platform SDK + WinFX SDK

re: Coming soon: Windows SDK

Jason Sacks — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:01:08 GMT

Demetrius, the SHA API will be documented in the build we will be releasing. It will also be posted with the online version of the documentation when that goes live in several weeks.

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James — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:22:02 GMT

Hi Jason,

Great news but when will the sdk be available for download (tools etc) for us poor students unable to afford MSDN?

re: Coming soon: Windows SDK

gibgib — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:08:34 GMT

Hi, I don't know if this is the place to ask but does anyone know where you can get the Windows 3.1 SDK. Is it a free download. I've tried looking on the web as I want to develop software for older systems but need the libraries/header files to compiled for win16.

So, is the SDK available now (27nth of September 2006) the final one?

The Angel of Drivers — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:21:53 GMT

So, is the Windows SDK available now (27nth of September 2006) the final one? Or is it just a CTP release?

This is a very important question for a lot of developers.

Thank you.