Windows SDK Registry Keys

How the Windows SDK writes registry keys

ascend slowly, breathing normally — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:23:06 GMT

A new article on the Windows SDK blog explains how the Windows SDKs, including the Windows SDK components

Visual Studio Links #37

Visual Studio Hacks — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:55:22 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. US ISV Developer Evangelism Team has posted a link to 46 tutorials that the ASP.NET team has created for the ASP.NET AJAX Control

re: Windows SDK Registry Keys

someone — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:53:40 GMT

What was the last SDK version to work with VS.NET 2003?

re: Windows SDK Registry Keys

wsdkblog@microsoft.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:42:57 GMT

I believe that the last SDKs to work with VS .NET 2003 are the SDK for .NET Framework 2.0 (x86), Released Nov 2006 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fe6f2099-b7b4-4f47-a244-c96d69c35dec&DisplayLang=en) and the Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK, Released Mar 2006 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0baf2b35-c656-4969-ace8-e4c0c0716adb&DisplayLang=en)

Karin Meier

Windows SDK

SDK naming

makeminea99 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:50:59 GMT

Here, we all find the naming system thses days ever so confusing. I assume that currently, to develop our apps that run mainly on XP and Vista we should use Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 for the latest and greates samples etc. That just seems wrong to me.

re: Windows SDK Registry Keys

wsdkblog@microsoft.com — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:38:33 GMT

I understand that the naming of Windows SDKs is confusing. Just remember that the name of an SDK relates to the latest operating system that SDK supports. This way, you’ll know that an SDK supports development for the OS in the SDKN name, plus all Microsoft supported OSes prior to that one. To help you figure out how long Microsoft will support a product, there's a great site at Microsoft Lifecycle Support Policy (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];lifecycle) that explains the support schedule around just about any product, including information around the various support phases. You don't have to guess how long a product will be supported.

Karin Meier

Windows SDK Team