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Using Windows SDK Vista Bridge Sample Library

Many of you don’t know about the Vista Bridge sample library, what can it do or even where you can find it. Let’s start with the basics; i.e. definitions. Vista Bridge is a sample library that contains managed wrappers for a number of Windows Vista APIs

How to get the WinSDK Configuration Tool to work

The Windows SDK Configuration Tool sets which version of Windows SDK headers, libraries and tools you want to build with in Visual Studio. The tool shipped with the Windows SDK for Server 2008, and bugs have since been discovered that affect different

WinSDK in VS2008 SP1: what changed?

I'm often asked what changed in the Windows SDK components that shipped with Visual Studio 2008 between the RTM version and the SP1 version. To answer this question, I’ve compiled a list of new files and files that changed within the retail version of

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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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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Bug Notification: VS2008 SP1 Breaks WinSDK Configuration Tool

Issue : Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 breaks the Windows SDK Configuration tool in the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. This tool is used to set the version of Windows SDK headers, libraries and tools you wish to build with

Windows SDK Survey Results So Far

We want to share some preliminary results from the recent Windows SDK customer surveys asking how would you spend $100 on existing SDK features and how would you spend $100 on new SDK features . The results may surprise you! Thanks to those that have

What NEW Windows SDK Features do you want?

How would you spend $100 on NEW Windows SDK features? We're planning our next version and subsequent releases of the SDK. In that spirit, we’re running a quick poll of Windows SDK users to help us keep our "vision" for the SDK aligned with yours. If you

How would you spend $100 to improve Windows SDK components?

How would you improve the Windows SDK components? If you had a hypothetical $100 to spend on the list of existing SDK components below, what would you improve? There are no rules. You can spend it all on one component you think needs help, or divide the

.NET Terrarium 2.0 source code now available!

The Windows SDK team is happy to announce the availability of the source code for .NET Terrarium 2.0 on http://www.codeplex.com/terrarium2 . For those who are not familiar with Terrarium, I’ll provide a little history. It is a game that was created by
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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

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

How Often should the Windows SDK be updated?

The Windows SDK is typically updated only when a Windows operating system or the .NET Framework reaches a major milestone or is released. Unfortunately, this leaves large gaps of time between SDK updates. Are there parts of the SDK would you like to see
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Released: Windows Installer 4.5 SDK

A standalone Windows Installer 4.5 SDK has been released to the Download Center. This Windows Installer SDK release contains updates to tools, utilities, samples, and documentation for Windows Installer 4.5. Aaron Stebner blogged about the new and improved
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Windows SDK Registry Keys

The Windows SDK team has received a number of questions about how we manage our registry, so I wanted to take a minute to describe the way that the Windows SDK writes to the registry. On installation of a Windows SDK, including Windows SDK components
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