“The Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit 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, tools, headers, and libraries that shipped in the Windows SDK for Vista in November, 2006.”
Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista
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Nice to have most if not all of it in one downloadable package. If it’s an update purely for Vista support, it’s kinda late though.
Purely for Vista is correct. I cannot use it on this Linux system, therefore I cannot use this system to develop for Vista.
Does it let you install it under XP ?
Or do you need to have Vista running before you can use it ?
The time has come for Microsoft to open up a little more and let others using other systems develop for them…. if they feel they want to.
Ballmer himself was crying out for developers, why block them out now when you need them the most ?
I haven’t downloaded it yet, but if it’s just adding support for Vista I’d have to assume it’s installable on XP, otherwise they’d have to have a dedicated Vista package.
// The time has come for Microsoft to open up a little more and let others using other systems develop for them…. if they feel they want to. //
Agreed, however do you really want Microsoft to be developing for say a Linux environment? They’d likely want to control it in some way. I think the current method with the Mono project is best. It may lag a bit behind as new language is added / compilers are changed, but at least it’s open.
// Ballmer himself was crying out for developers, why block them out now when you need them the most ? //
Yeah I can see your point, though I’d have my doubts about OSS developers developing for a proprietary system like Windows… in mass anyway.
If you’re developing for Windows, you want to test for Windows. The Microsoft Toolchain does not pretend to develop software for a non-windows system and there is no need for a cross-compiler since Windows is a perfectly capable self-hosting environment. If you want to develop for Windows on Linux, why not try something that purports to be cross-platform, like GTK+, WxWidgets, or Qt? I think you’re complaining about nothing.
If you read the webpage then you will find out that it supports XP. It supports both installing on XP and developing for XP.
If you read the webpage then you will find out that it supports XP. It supports both installing on XP and developing for XP.
I can program for XP today without downloading and installing a gig’s worth of software updates and components, which I will then need to deliver with my applications to get them to do……..exactly the same things as they were doing before. It’s a waste of time.
It may be a waste of time for you but not for others. The good thing about the new SDK is that i can compile my existing programs with it and also explore the new APIs and use the power of new API in my software.
If you want to stay pedantic, then be that. But don’t try to come off as negative to something which is useful to others.
It seems you just hate Microsoft and that is why you are saying bad about the new stuff.
Given that your anti-Microsoft history, you are not trustworthy. Negative stuff like this is expected from people like you who are so biased.
Edited 2007-03-25 04:49
What a moving target that whole mess is.
Care to explain?
Win32 API has been same for last 8-10 years unlike anything in Linux.
Edited 2007-03-25 00:58
Care to explain?
Click the link above and have a look at the overview, and then put your software vendor’s hat on – if you have one. Fancy delivering applications like that to your customers?
Win32 API has been same for last 8-10 years
What’s the Win32 API got to do with anything? Have a look at the components in there (and this is about five minutes after Vista’s release). People are expected to program with this, and not only that, but deliver a couple of shotgun barrels’ full of explosive dependencies as well.
It seems as though the MSDN lunatics indeed have taken over. I suggest you read this:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/APIWar.html
Click the link above and have a look at the overview, and then put your software vendor’s hat on – if you have one. Fancy delivering applications like that to your customers?
First of all, you don’t need to distribute .net 3.0 runtimes for vista, but you do need the .net 3.0 sdk if you want to program in it. Secondly, Java is the most used language on the planet right now, and you need to either have or distribute the runtimes for it, as it works in exactly the same way as .net (or python, or perl, or any other managed language)
What’s the Win32 API got to do with anything?
You comment on how much of a moving target developing for windows is when they change the api once a decade, while linux wont guarentee a stable ABI accross MINOR revisions.