Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista Downloads

The Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) Update for Windows Vista provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools you need to develop applications that run on Windows. This release of the SDK supplies updated compilers and documentation.

The updated compilers are the same ones that recently shipped in Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. This SDK also includes the samples, headers, tools and libraries that shipped in the Software Development Kit for Vista in November, 2006.

This download contains the SDK only. To build .NET Framework 3.0 applications, you must have .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components.

This release of the SDK is intended to replace the Windows SDK for Vista. If you have already installed the Windows SDK for Vista and you want to install the Windows SDK Update for Vista, you will need to first uninstall the Windows SDK for Vista.

The Windows SDK Update for Vista includes content for application deve...