Announcing: The Windows SDK Developer Center

wsdkblog@microsoft.com — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Today we launched the Windows SDK MSDN Developer Center. This site is intended as a one-stop place to provide information to help you determine which version of the Windows SDK is most appropriate for your use, and to get information on how you can maximize your experience with the Windows SDK.

Some other useful things you’ll find on the site:

Useful information for how you can use the SDK.
Links to appropriate Windows or Platform SDK downloads.
Links to useful downloads to content that is associated with the SDK such as Windows PowerShell and the Debugging Tools for Windows.
Links and views into community content.
Online Release Notes that are refreshed as new issues come up.
Link to the SDK’s Privacy Statement.
Links to related Developer Centers.
Links to support information.

We’re pretty darn excited to get this site live, but of course it’s only a first take on the project. We have a good amount of additional content we’re planning on adding to the site over the next few months, including a matrix to help determine which SDK release is the right one for you. Please help us by sending feedback on the site. You can add a comment below or use one of the mailto links on the site.

Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 RC0

wsdkblog@microsoft.com — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:26:00 GMT

The latest prerelease Windows SDK is now available for installation! This SDK release supports Windows Server 2008 RC0 and .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2.

The SDK is compatible with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2005 SP1; including Visual Studio Express Editions. In addition the SDK is shipping the Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 versions of the C++ command line toolset and CRT.

As always, please look over the Release Notes for a description of known issues with the SDK. A few important items of note are the following:

1. This release of the SDK is an ISO-only download. For more tips on handling an ISO, please take a look Copying the contents of ISO files section of the Troubleshooting SDK Download/Setup Problems blog post.

2. To take advantage of new VS 2008 capabilities when building SDK samples please review the Release Notes about what steps are required.

3. The .NET Framework documentation, samples, and tools in this SDK aligns with .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2.

Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new in this SDK:

· The latest set of documentation, samples, and tools for Windows including .NET Framework 3.5 development.

· A new C++ compiler and associated CRT

· This SDK will install side-by-side with Visual Studio 2008 Beta2.

We encourage you to install this SDK on a test machine and let us know what you think.

Barry R. Butterklee

Windows SDK Release PM

barrybu@microsoft.com

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