Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (ISO)

Brief Description

The Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications using both native (Win32®) and managed (.NET Framework) technologies.

Overview

The Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 provides the documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools (including C++ compilers) that you need to develop applications to run on Windows 7 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. To build and run .NET Framework applications, you must have the corresponding version of the .NET Framework installed. This SDK is compatible with Visual Studio® 2008, including Visual Studio Express Editions, which are available free of charge.

Please see the Release Notes for the full list of supported platforms, compilers, and Visual Studio versions and any late breaking issues. For detailed information about the content in this SDK, including a description of new content, please see the Getting Started section in the documentation.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7

Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP Hard disk space - choose a disk drive with a minimum of 2.5 GB of free space. We highly recommend that you have your machine fully patched through Microsoft Update before beginning setup. The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 tools and samples contained in this SDK require installation of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 which is available with Visual Studio 2008 or a standalone install of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.

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Instructions

The Windows SDK is available as a DVD ISO image file so that you can burn your own DVD. If you do not need to burn a DVD the SDK is also available via web setup. To verify that you are downloading the correct ISO file, please refer to the table below to select a file to download based upon your chip type. Additionally, you can use the CRC and SHA1 to validate that the file you've downloaded is the correct file.

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File Name: GRMSDK_EN_DVD.iso

Chip: X86

CRC#: 0xCA4FE79D

SHA1: 0x8695F5E6810D84153181695DA78850988A923F4E

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File Name: GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso

Chip: AMD64

CRC#: 0xB417A4F7

SHA1: 0x3393C98B8468CB3505557854922707510F8B65E1

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File Name: GRMSDKIAI_EN_DVD.iso

Chip: Itanium

CRC#: 0x5E0E4BEA

SHA1: 0xAE454215585A044EBE593E9F71FF1A4BC03D56A8

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Please note if you are running a 64-bit version of Windows and Visual Studio 2008, please upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 SP1 before installing the Windows 7 SDK. This prevents an issue where some platform configuration choices are unavailable in Visual Studio’s New Project Platform and New Solution Platform dialogs.

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