Windows Software Development Kit
Starting from Visual Studio 2008, with the .NET Framework and the development environment, the setup process will also install the Windows SDK on your machine. This software development kit provides additional tools and libraries useful for developing applications for the .NET Framework. In older versions of the .NET Framework and in the Microsoft Windows operating system, you had to install two different packages, formerly known as the .NET Framework SDK and the Microsoft Platform SDK. With the introduction of Windows Vista, the .NET Framework has become part of the core of the operating system; Microsoft released the Windows SDK that provides tools for building both managed and unmanaged applications. The Windows ...
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