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Friday, October 16, 2009 12:08 AM

Development with Windows SDK & DirectX SDK when Visual Studio 2008 is installed

In order to utilize DirectX SDK resources you should ensure that the DirectX SDK include, library, and executables directories are set correctly in Visual Studio 2008. The order in which Visual Studio 2008 looks for executable directories and library
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Friday, August 21, 2009 10:33 PM

Windows SDK Configuration Tool May Report an Error When OS Display Format is not English

This post describes a problem with the Windows SDK Configuration Tool, which is used to set the version of Windows SDK headers, libraries and tools you wish to build with in the Visual Studio or Windows SDK build environments. Issue: When you launch the
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Monday, August 10, 2009 11:51 PM

Troubleshooting Windows 7 SDK Download/Install

This article applies to the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Read these other posts to troubleshoot issues with the Windows SDK for Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 or to troubleshoot issues with the Windows SDK Update for Vista
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Friday, August 07, 2009 6:50 PM

Using the Win 7 SDK Build Environment with VS 2008

Changes have been made to the Windows SDK build environment and how the SDK interacts with MSBUILD and Visual Studio 2008. This post applies to the RTM release of the Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 . What changed with the Windows
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Friday, June 12, 2009 11:56 PM

Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework

Excited about Windows 7 and would like to use new features from your managed application, but do not have a convenient way to do that? Always wanted to use many of the useful features from Windows Vista or older versions of Windows but could not do so
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Friday, June 12, 2009 9:57 PM

Win SDK for Server 2008 plus VS2008 causes double X64 platform entries in VC directories

Issue : Installing the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 after Visual Studio 2008 Standard on a computer with an X64 operating system corrupts VC directories, causing a double X64 entry Scenario : You probably have this issue if your computer setup
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:33 PM

Troubleshooting Windows SDK Server 2008 Download/Install

This article applies to the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.  Read this other post to troubleshoot issues with the Windows SDK Update for Vista and .NET Framework 3.0 .   Running the Windows SDK web setup on some
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:11 PM

How to: find the right Windows SDK for your needs

Several versions of the Windows SDK and earlier Platform SDKs (PSDK) are available.  Generally, developers should use the most recent Windows SDK, which supports several Windows operating systems.  However, some developers have development requirements
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:22 AM

ESENT (Extensible Storage Engine) API in the Windows SDK

I’m not sure how many people know that Windows comes with an embeddable, transactional database engine which is available to developers through the Windows SDK. The ESENT database engine can be used whenever an application wants high-performance, low-overhead
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:39 PM

How it works: Windows SDK Documentation Part 2

Many Windows SDK users have questions about the system behind the documentation provided with the SDK. Part 1 of this series explained the basic structure behind the Windows SDK help system. It also looked at how ms-help:// URLs can be used to learn about
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:03 PM

How it works: Windows SDK Documentation (Part 1)

Introduction Many Windows SDK users have questions about the system behind the documentation provided with the SDK. Here is the first in a series of posts explaining how this system works and how to customize it. This post provides an overview of the
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:47 PM

Windows SDK Hidden Gems Part 3: TcpAnalyzer.exe and Consume.exe

I’ve been writing about some of the useful but sometimes overlooked tools in the Windows Software Development Kit for Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 . For this installment, let’s have look at couple of tools that are related in that they are both
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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:20 PM

WinSDK bug notification: SDK Config Tool appears to work but fails

This article applies to the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 , when used with Visual Studio 2008 (all versions). This post describes a problem with the GUI version of the Windows SDK Configuration Tool , which is used to set
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Friday, March 07, 2008 11:30 PM

Workaround: SDK build env fails on X86 XP with VS2005

This article applies to the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 . Problem: If your usage scenario matches the one listed below , you will be unable to build in the Windows SDK command line build environment. If you type cl.exe in
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:29 AM

Integrating Windows SDK and VS with new SDK Configuration tool

This article describes the use of the Windows SDK Configuration tool, which is included in the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 and works with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008, including Visual Studio 2008 Express SKUs.
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