Integrating Windows SDK and VS with new SDK Configuration tool

NandaL — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:36:00 GMT

The Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5, released in February, 2008, includes a new tool to help you develop more easily with Visual Studio. You can use this tool to set which version of Windows SDK headers, libraries and tools you want to build with in Visual Studio.

The Visual Studio 2008 editions are seamlessly integrated with the Windows SDK. VS2008 editions include the same Vista RTM headers and libraries that shipped in the Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista released in March, 2007. (The SDK tools in VS2008 are more recent.) You can use these integrated Windows Vista headers and libraries right out of the box with Visual Studio 2008. If you want to use the content in another Windows SDK, the SDK Configuration Tool will allow you to do just that, by setting which SDK is the ‘current’ SDK to build with.

More detailed information about how to acheive this is posted on the WindowsSDK blog @ http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/

The actual post is http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2008/03/01/integrating-windows-sdk-and-vs-with-new-sdk-configuration-tool.aspx

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Integrating Windows SDK and VS with new SDK Configuration tool